The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 with one half to

Rainer Weiss 
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration

and the other half jointly to

Barry C. Barish 
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration

and

Kip S. Thorne
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration

“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

Read more at

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/press.html

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/popular-physicsprize2017.pdf

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/advanced-physicsprize2017.pdf