摘要Rainer Weiss、Barry Clark Barish和Kip Stephen Thorne 3位美国科学家分享了2017年度诺贝尔物理学奖，以表彰他们对激光干涉引力波天文台（LIGO）决定性的贡献和观测引力波信号的更大发现，其中Weiss分享了1/2奖金，Barish和Thorne各分享了1/4奖金。本文介绍这3位诺贝尔物理学奖获得者的学术经历，从理论、实验和数据分析方面解读引力波信号被探测到这一重大发现的科学意义。
Abstract：The Nobel Prize for Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half to Barry Clark Barish and Kip Stephen Thorne, for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. In this paper we introduce the academic experiences of these scientists, and interpret the scientific significance of this important discovery from theory, experiment and data analysis.
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