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White House Congratulates the LIGO Team
Feature Story • February 12, 2016
On Feb 11, 2016, President Obama tweeted his congratulations to the LIGO team:
Einstein was right! Congrats to @NSF and @LIGO on detecting gravitational waves - a huge breakthrough in how we understand the universe.
— President Obama (@POTUS) February 11, 2016
On Feb 12, 2016, John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, posted a statement on the White House blog with congratulations to the LIGO team.
OSTP Dir Holdren on the groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves. Congrats to @NSF & all behind the effort! → https://t.co/KO7WBz5Qxs
— The White House OSTP (@whitehouseostp) February 12, 2016
Read the full statement on https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog.
