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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to US scientist with German roots
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the American scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves. Rainer Weiss was born in Berlin and emigrated to the USA as a child to escape the Nazis.
A scientific milestone

The three researchers made a decisive contribution to the construction of the two LIGO detectors in America, with which gravitational waves were observed for the first time ever two years ago. For a few moments, these waves caused the Earth to reverberate and revealed a side of the Universe which had until then remained unseen.
Emigration to the USA
