Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine Thomas Perlmann, right, announces winners.
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Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to 'black hole telescope' Trio
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their work in detecting gravitational waves. The three American scientists "made decisive contributions to the LIGO detector," an observatory instrument that detects the waves.
US Scientists Awarded Nobel In Medicine for Body Clock Insights
Three US scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm," otherwise known as our biological clock, the Nobel committee said.
