UWM Experts Help Three Physicists Win Nobel Prize

A team of U-W Milwaukee scientists helped three other researchers win the Nobel Prize for Physics today (Tuesday). Physicists Kip Thorne and Barry Barish from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) won the honor along with M-I-T professor Rainer Weiss. They were recognized for detecting gravitational waves. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that dozens of Milwaukee professors were involved in the research, which could eventually provide important clues on how the universe began. U-W-M’s part of the project calibrated data from two large “L” shaped detectors in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. The Milwaukee team was led by Patrick Brady, Jolien Creighton, Alan Wiseman, and Xavier Siemens.