Les Guthman is an American director, writer and production executive,
who has the distinction of both having produced three of the 20 Top
Adventure Films of All Time, according to Men’s Journal magazine,
and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide
competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led
to his film, Three Nights at the Keck, hosted by actor John Lithgow.He
is currently producer, director and writer of the Advanced LIGO
Documentary Project, a four-year collaboration with Caltech, MIT and
the LIGO Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation,
MathWorks and Caltech. The Advanced LIGO Documentary Project was
formed in the summer of 2015 to document and produce the definitive
documentary about Advanced LIGO's search for, and expected detection
of, the first gravitational waves, a discovery that would open up the
95% of the universe that has been dark to our existing observatories
and space based telescopes -- the violent warped side described by
Caltech's Kip Thorne 25 years ago in Black Holes and Time Warps.On
September 14, 2015, Guthman and his team were on location filming at
the LIGO Livingston Observatory when the historic detection was made.
Over the next five months, he had exclusive film access to document
the long, careful process of scientific verification that was
conducted by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to confirm that the
received signal was in fact a gravitational wave, as predicted by
Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.On October 3, 2017 LIGO
physicists Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize
in Physics.
who has the distinction of both having produced three of the 20 Top
Adventure Films of All Time, according to Men’s Journal magazine,
and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide
competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led
to his film, Three Nights at the Keck, hosted by actor John Lithgow.He
is currently producer, director and writer of the Advanced LIGO
Documentary Project, a four-year collaboration with Caltech, MIT and
the LIGO Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation,
MathWorks and Caltech. The Advanced LIGO Documentary Project was
formed in the summer of 2015 to document and produce the definitive
documentary about Advanced LIGO's search for, and expected detection
of, the first gravitational waves, a discovery that would open up the
95% of the universe that has been dark to our existing observatories
and space based telescopes -- the violent warped side described by
Caltech's Kip Thorne 25 years ago in Black Holes and Time Warps.On
September 14, 2015, Guthman and his team were on location filming at
the LIGO Livingston Observatory when the historic detection was made.
Over the next five months, he had exclusive film access to document
the long, careful process of scientific verification that was
conducted by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to confirm that the
received signal was in fact a gravitational wave, as predicted by
Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.On October 3, 2017 LIGO
physicists Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize
in Physics.
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