Award recipients Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, pose with NASA Astranaut Mae Jemison on the red carpet for the Smithsonian Magazine's 2016 American Ingenuity Awards, honoring groundbreaking individuals in several categories, at the National Portrait Gallery on December 8, 2016 in Washington, DC. Weiss, Barish, Thorne and Ronald Drever, won the award for Physical Sciences for proving Einstein's theory of the existence of gravitational waves in the universe. MOLLY RILEY / AFP