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Corey Gray 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.