The Nobel Prize In Physics 2017Prize motivation:for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational wavesRainer Weiss Born:1932,Berlin,Germany Affiliation at the time of the award:LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration,Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT),Cambridge,MA,USA Prize share:1/2 The Nobel Prize In Physics 2017 Prize motivation: for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves Rainer Weiss Born: 1932, Berlin, Germany Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO / VIRGO Collaboration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA Prize share: 1/2