The Unsung Heroes of LIGO

On Monday, October 3rd, three people won the Nobel Prize for observing gravitational waves. But more than 1,000 scientists contributed to this discovery. These are the unsung heroes of LIGO.

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Producer/Video by:
Jason Lederman


Research:
Cici Zhang
Mark D. Kaufman

Media Used (CC BY-SA 3.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kip_Thorne_at_Caltech.jpg

Media Used (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
http://news.mit.edu/2016/rainer-weiss-ligo-origins-0211

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