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Stanley E. Whitcomb

American physicist

  • Stanley Ernest Whitcomb
  • Stan Whitcomb
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Honoring Barish and Whitcomb, on behalf of the LIGO collaboration, for their visionary and pivotal leadership roles, scientific guidance, and novel instrument design during the development of LIGO that were crucial for LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, thus directly validating Einstein's 100-year-old prediction of gravitational waves and ushering a new field of gravitational wave astronomy. (English)
For pioneering interdisciplinary contributions to the development of LIGO gravitational-wave interferometers (English)

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