Scientists at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Rome celebrated on Tuesday when the Nobel Prize in physics went to the “LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration” that discovered gravitational waves. Italian scientists were the driving force behind the Virgo detector.

“This time the whole of the science world has been rewarded,” Federico Ferrini, the director of the European Gravitational Observatory, said. Ferrini dedicated his toast to the “father” of the Virgo detector, Adalberto Giazotto.