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This year's Physics Nobel prize was awarded to American physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip S. Thorne 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'. Half of the prize has been awarded to Weiss, with the other half split between Barish and Thorne. The laureates are the prime architects of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) that made the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015 - a century after Albert Einstein's theory predicted their existence.
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