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during two simultaneous confer-
ences held on Feb. 11 in Hanford,
Washington, and Cascina, Italy.
Though, the very first gravita-
tional wave detection dates back
Sept. 14, 2015.
LIGO interferometers are
based in the states of Washington
and Louisiana. With a Caltech
and MIT label, thanks to the co-
founders Kip Thorne, Ronald
Drever and Rainer Weiss, LIGO
is considered the largest and most
ambitious project ever funded by
The National Science Foundation
(NSF). A total of "$620 million
has been poured into it," reports
WIRED.
The Italian counterpart Virgo
is based in the province of Pisa,
Italy. Founded by Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
(INFN) and currently leading the
European Gravitational
Observatory (EGO), the amount
invested from Italy reaches "350
million," according to Il Fatto
Quotidiano,
Despite the major Italian and
American contributions, not to
forget is the outstanding work
provided by experts from France,
Germany, Australia, Poland and
more. According to Il Corriere
della Sera, it took approximately
1000 researchers and 130 scien-
From left to right: Maria Alessandra Papa (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Hannover), Alessandra Buonanno (Director of Max Planck Institute
for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam & professor at the University of Maryland) Lisa Barsotti (LIGO-MIT) Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech)
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