# Nobel Prize Explainer: Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector

An episode of [Science Talk](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/122384595), 3 Oct 2017, 19 min.

Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SAM4497347381.mp3?updated=1702506218

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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