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They Proved Einstein Right; Now They've Won The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize

Nobel Committee for Physics members announce the 2017 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The laureates are (from left) Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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They Proved Einstein Right; Now They've Won The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize

October 3, 2017 • For years, three physicists worked to prove Albert Einstein's idea that gravitational waves are rippling through space-time. In 2015, they made history as part of the LIGO Collaboration.

They Proved Einstein Right; Now They've Won The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize

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3 Scientists Win Nobel In Physics For Development Of Blue LED

A screen shows the laureates of the Nobel Prize in physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday. Bertil Ericson/EPA/Landov hide caption

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3 Scientists Win Nobel In Physics For Development Of Blue LED

October 7, 2014 • American Shuji Nakamura, and Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan, will share the prize for co-developing a blue light-emitting diode that triggered a revolution in lighting technology.

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Top Stories: Nobel Prize In Physics; Possible Debt Ceiling Vote

October 8, 2013 • Also: Boston school bus drivers go on strike, China warns the U.S. over the debt ceiling, and North Korea steps up its military alert.

Higgs Boson Researchers Awarded The Nobel Prize In Physics

British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs (left) and Belgian theoretical physicist Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Higgs Boson Researchers Awarded The Nobel Prize In Physics

October 8, 2013 • Britain's Peter Higgs and Belgium's Francois Englert were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy for the "theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles."

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

One Step Closer To The Quantum Future

October 17, 2012 • This year's Nobel Prize in physics celebrates amazing experiments that have the potential to elucidate some of Nature's deepest secrets. They also and have the potential to lead us down the path to a world transformed by revolutionary quantum applications.

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French And American Scientists Share Physics Nobel

October 9, 2012 • Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States have been honored for their work on the interaction between life and matter — in particular, the "fundamental interactions between light particles and matter."

Accelerating Universes, Nobel Prizes And A Revolution In Cosmology

Remnants of Tycho's Supernova, seen in an X-ray/infrared composite image. The supernova was observed by Tycho Brahe and other skywatchers in 1572.

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Accelerating Universes, Nobel Prizes And A Revolution In Cosmology

October 4, 2011 • Nobody expected the result. Nobody knew what to do with it. It came as a complete surprise. It sent cosmologists back to their blackboards, rethinking the structure of the universe and its history. Now the work has earned a Nobel Prize.

Nobel Prize In Physics Honors Work On Expanding Universe

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Nobel Prize In Physics Honors Work On Expanding Universe

October 4, 2011 • Their discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace was "astounding," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says. It suggests that "dark energy" is pushing the universe apart.

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