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Nobel Prize Physics 2017 for Gravitational Waves! | Nick Stone (2017x36)

Air date: Oct 06, 2017

The Nobel Prize for Physics 2017 was announced this week and astronomers won the day! So who won the prize and why? This week Dr Nick Stone swung by the Cool Worlds Lab to tell us about the historic discovery of graviational waves from merging black holes and how this year's winner pioneered methods to discover them. ::More about this Video:: ► Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 announcement: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/phys… ► Abbott et al. (2016), "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger": https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 ► Barish & Weiss (1999), "LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves": http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/52/10/10.1063/1.882861 ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ► Outro music by 8-bit Universe "Harder Better Faster Stronger [8 Bit Cover Tribute to Daft Punk]": https://8bituniverse.bandcamp.com/track/harder-better-faster-stronger-8-bit-tribute-to-daft-punk ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!!