The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.

Nobel Lecture: LIGO and the discovery of gravitational waves I
Rainer Weiss
Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 040501 (2018)
Nobel Lecture: LIGO and gravitational waves II
Barry C. Barish
Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 040502 (2016)
Nobel Lecture: LIGO and gravitational waves III
Kip S. Thorne
Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 040503 (2016)