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Gravitational waves discovery team awarded $3 mn
short by Swarnim Bagre / on Wednesday, 4 May, 2016
The team of nearly 1,000 scientists and engineers responsible for the discovery of gravitational waves was awarded a $3 million prize by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs for the breakthrough. In February, the team, including the three founders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) group, announced the discovery, which was first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago.
read more at The Guardian