Prix Shaw · Astronomie

Prix Shaw 2016 : lauréats

Destinataires

  1. Kip S. Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever

    Physique

    For conceiving and designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose recent direct detection of gravitational waves opens a new window in astronomy, with the first remarkable discovery being the merger of a pair of stellar mass black holes.