This picture shows a large view as the Nobel Committee for Physics members announce the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Physics on October 3, 2017, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. 2017 laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physics (on the display L-R): Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne The physics prize is the second of the 2017 Nobels that is awarded, after the medicine prize, which on Monday, October 2, 2017, went to three US-born and based geneticists -- Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young -- for shedding light on the biological clock that governs the sleep-wake cycles of most living things. / AFP PHOTO / Jonathan NACKSTRAND