A study conducted in US and India showed that fathers prefer to spend for sons, and mothers for daughters whether it is a small gift or passing on the property.
The Royal Swedish Academy for Science had declared the award for Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for their contributions in the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector and for their observations of gravitational waves.