Westinghouse STS alum wins Breakthrough Prize for gravitational wave detection
91导航 & the Public聽alumnus Kip Thorne won a聽聽for his work with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and gravitational waves.
Thorne, a Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California 鈥� and a聽Westinghouse Science Talent Search 1958 semifinalist 鈥斅爓as recognized with a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He was recognized in May, along with two other winners, for the detection of gravitational waves, which opens new horizons in astronomy and physics.
Thorne聽will share a single $1 million prize, with $2 million divided among the 1,012 members of the LIGO research group. The prize was awarded to founders and team members of LIGO.
This聽special award can be given any time “in recognition of an extraordinary scientific achievement,” according to an聽. It recognizes the LIGO team’s collaborative research on gravitational waves and the implications for physics and astronomy.
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