LIGO (film)

For other uses, see Ligo (disambiguation).
LIGO
Directed byLes Guthman
Written byLes Guthman
Produced by
Narrated byLes Guthman
CinematographyJohn Armstrong
Edited byLes Guthman
Production
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LIGO is a 2019 American documentary film that tells the inside account of the discovery by the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration of the first observation of gravitational waves in September 2015,[1] a discovery that led two years later to the Nobel Prize in Physics for LIGO physicists Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish.[2] In December 2019, National Geographic named the LIGO detections at the top of its list of "The 20 Top Scientific Discoveries of the Decade".[3]

  1. ^ Overbye, Dennis (11 February 2016). "New York Times article Gravitational Waves Detected - Confirming Einstein's Theory". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "2017 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement".
  3. ^ "National Geographic's Top 20 Scientific Discoveries of the Decade". National Geographic Society. 5 December 2019. Archived from the original on December 6, 2019.