All three of us − Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and I − want to recognize the critical role played by the scientists, engineers, students, technicians and administrators of the LIGO laboratory and LIGO Scientific Collaboration who are responsible for opening a new field of scientific research: Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics. We are also deeply indebted to the United States National Science Foundation, which was willing to take a risk in supporting a new field that required significant technical development and with an uncertain knowledge of sources but certain that, should it succeed, it would have a profound influence on our understanding of physics and the universe.

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Rainer Weiss,"LIGO and the Discovery of Gravitational Waves, I: Nobel Lecture, December 8, 2017"