But the older gentlemen at the center of the fray — Kip Thorne and Barry Barish — aren’t your typical L.A. celebrities. They are Caltech scientists who had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Thorne and Barish, along with MIT theoretical physicist Rainer Weiss, received the Nobel for their work on a project called LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Caltech physicists Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, talk about winning the Nobel for their work on a project called LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Among the champagne-sipping celebrants were Jameson Rollins, Gautman Venugopalan, Johannes Eichholz and Aidan Brooks, all members of the LIGO team.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 04, 2017 00:57 UTC