Who among the following are awarded with the Special Breakthrough Priz

Who among the following are awarded with the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the year 2017 ?

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Stephen W Hawking and Roger Penrose

Ronald Drever, Kip S Thorne and Rainer Weiss

Joseph Polchinski, Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa

J Michael Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane and David J Thouless

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The Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the year 2017 was awarded to the LIGO scientific collaboration for the observation of gravitational waves. The key individuals representing the collaboration were Ronald Drever, Kip S Thorne, and Rainer Weiss, who were pioneers in the development of the LIGO project.

The prize recognized the detection of gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which opened a new window for observing the universe. Drever, Thorne, and Weiss are considered founding figures of the LIGO experiment.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was also awarded for this discovery, specifically to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne. Ronald Drever had passed away earlier in 2017. The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.

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