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Barish was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Lee and Harold Barish. His parents' families were Jewish immigrants from a part of Poland that is now in Belarus. [10] [11] Just after World War II , the family moved to Los Feliz in Los Angeles .
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May 9, 2024 · Barry C. Barish, American physicist who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the first direct detection of gravity waves. He shared the prize with Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne. Learn more about Barish’s life and work.
Oct 5, 2017 · And Barish, who was LIGO director from 1997 to 2005, is widely credited with having transformed the collaboration from a chaotic endeavour to a well-oiled machine.
- Davide Castelvecchi
- 2017
Oct 3, 2017 · Barry Barish, who obtained his B.S. and Ph.D from UC Berkeley in 1957 and 1962, respectively, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves. Barish is the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Caltech.
Oct 3, 2017 · LIGO scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne pioneered the design of detector of black-hole mergers and other astronomical events. LIGO was the first to detect a collision of ...
Dec 26, 2015 · In 2017, Barish, Thorne, and Weiss won the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research and the European Physical Society's Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize. Barish was born on January 27, 1936, in Omaha, Nebraska, and spent his childhood in Los Angeles.
