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  • Who has won the Nobel prize in "Physics" for the year 2017 ?


  • Options
  • A. Barry Barish
  • B. Kip Thorne
  • C. Rainer Weiss
  • D. All of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • All of the above 

    Explanation

    Rainer Weiss, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, both of the California Institute of Technology, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago but had never been directly seen.

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