Three U.S. scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics for their instrumental role in detecting gravitational waves, an effort that blossomed from a student’s question into one of the most elaborate experiments in the history of science. Rainer Weiss, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the award with physicists Kip Thorne and Barry Barish at the California Institute of Technology.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 03, 2017 09:59 UTC