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Announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics and the Discovery of Gravitational Waves
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, who are members of the LIGO-VIRGO collaboration. This chapter discusses their decisive contributions to the observation of gravitational waves and provides background information on the recipients and the significance of their discovery.