Boulder-based HPD’s equipment helps LIGO team win Nobel Prize

BOULDER — A Boulder-based company provided some of the equipment used in the gravitational waves experiment that won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics.

High Precision Devices, a 30-person company, built the seismic isolation platforms where the measurement devices could be placed while eliminating any errors that could be picked up in small ground disturbances.

Using HPD’s platforms that eliminated those small disturbances, the winning LIGO team – Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – was able to pick up small vibrations that ultimately measured gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein 100 years ago.

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