Corey Gray
Corey Gray (Blackfoot: makoyiʔsokoo or Wolf's Path, born 1972 or 1973) is a Native American physicist and science communicator. He is a lead operator of LIGO in Hanford, Washington. He was among the first to detect gravitational waves, for which he and his team won a Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and a Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award in 2016. Gray and his team were publicly acknowledged by the three Nobel Prize in Physics laureates in 2017 for the discovery.
Gray is a member of Siksika Nation and was honored with a Headdress in 2024 for his work in physics and for translating scientific publications into the Blackfoot language with his mother.
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