Logan-born Kip Thorne has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the historic detection of gravitational waves, which gave scientists something like an ear to deeper, darker reaches of known existence.
An announcement was made early Tuesday morning at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that Thorne will share the prize with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Rainer Weiss and Caltech’s Barry Barish.
Thorne, 77, is regarded as one of three co-founders of LIGO (short for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), which in September 2015 recorded the gravitational wake of two black holes that collided 1.