Property:Milestone Present Site Owner
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West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited +
Texas Instruments Incorporated +
1972 - Rainer Weiss's Invention of the Gravitational Wave Antenna Used in the Large Interferometric Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) +
LIGO is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The design and construction of LIGO was conducted by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Construction of the facilities began in 1994, and the advanced LIGO installation was completed in 2014. Caltech has a cooperative agreement with the NSF to operate (jointly with MIT) the LIGO facilities for the NSF. At the LIGO Hanford Observatory, the NSF owns all buildings; the Department of Energy owns the land and allows Caltech and MIT to operate the facility through an MOU and Permit with the NSF. At LIGO Livingston Observatory, the NSF owns all buildings and the land is leased to the NSF by the Louisiana State University (LSU). The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) is located near Pisa and hosts the Virgo interferometric antenna, where construction started in 1997. EGO is a consortium, established under Italian law, created in 2000 by the Virgo funding institutions (CNRS for France and INFN for Italy) to ensure the long term scientific exploitation of the Virgo interferometric antenna. EGO owns and manages the buildings, operations, maintenance and upgrades of the antenna. EGO is established under the Italian law. The first Virgo antenna was inaugurated in 2003. Later on (2007) NIKHEF joined the consortium as an observer. The Virgo collaboration, consisting of scientists and engineers from many European countries, assures the scientific exploitation of the antenna, proposes and realizes its sensitivity upgrades. +
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The site is owned by Nokia. Alcatel and Nokia merged and continued their activities under the brand Nokia. +
University of Hawaii +
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution +
AT&T Labs and Nokia Bell Labs. +
Siemens Magnet Technology Ltd., part of Siemens Healthcare +
The University of Leuven (KU Leuven) +
The Grimeton Foundation. +
Dundee University +
French Government +
Stanford University. +
The University of Galway, formerly Queen's College +
Site 1: the Univ. of California Observatories; Site 2: the City of Santa Monica, CA. +
