Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 3rd, 2017. I'm Steve Merski.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics,

with one half to Reiner Weiss and the other half jointly to Barry C. Berish and Kip S. Thorne, all of them, members of the

LIGO-Virgo collaboration. And the Academy citation runs for decisive contributions to the

LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Joran Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy at 5.52 this morning Eastern Time.

What follows is an edited version of the announcement and press conference.

Reiner Weiss was born in 1932 in Berlin, in Germany.

He received his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

And he is still affiliated with the MIT as professor of physics.

Dr. Vise is since many years a US citizen.

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