ANU welcomes this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics

A triumph of physics. The discovery of gravitational waves has led to a new age of gravitational wave astronomy, allowing scientists to unlock many secrets of the Universe. ANU has welcomed this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for the ground-breaking work to detect gravitational waves for the first time, 100 years after their existence was predicted by Albert Einstein. ANU Vice-Chancellor and Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt AC congratulated Professor Barry Barish, Professor Kip Thorne and Professor Rainer Weiss from the United States for winning the award on behalf of an international team in which ANU has played a key role. "A triumph of physics. The discovery of gravitational waves has led to a new age of gravitational wave astronomy, allowing scientists to unlock many secrets of the Universe," said Professor Schmidt, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.   "In future, this technique will probe the nature of black holes, neutron stars, supernovae and other things not yet imagined.