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sellers. Welcome to Scientific American

Science Talk posted on June 14, 2016. I'm Steve Murski. The whole world was captivated in February

with the announcement that elusive gravitational waves had finally been detected by LIGO,

the Laser Interferometer Gravitational

Wave Observatory. On June 2nd, the announcement came that three scientists who co-founded LIGO

were awarded the 2016 Cavley Prize in astrophysics. They are Caltech's Kip Thorne and

Ronald Drever and MIT's Rainer Weiss.

Scientific Americans Clara Moskowitz spoke briefly to Thorne and Weiss at the

awards breakfast.

First you'll hear Thorne and then Weiss, who, as you'll hear, was kind of stunned at how

much non-scientists seem to be interested in the LIGO results.

I think the credit for LIGO's discovery really belongs to the team of a thousand people who pulled it off. Ray and Ron and I were there

at the beginning and got it started. But it is a superb LIGO team that makes us look good.

Yes.

And the one person who gets much less credit than he should is Barry Barish, who transformed

LIGO from a small R&D project that Ray and Ron and I started into the modern LIGO with a thousand people contributing that really made the discovery in the end.

Were you surprised that you won? Did you know coming into this?

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