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Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves .
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Barry C. Barish The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 . Born: 27 January 1936, Omaha, NE, USA . Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, ; California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA . Prize motivation: “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Prize ...
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.
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Barry C. Barish. Biographical. R. eflecting on my background, it is not at all apparent why my life did not go in other directions, rather than my becoming a physicist, and one dedicated to an academic career and pursuing research on some of the most fundamental problems in nature.
Oct 24, 2023 · Physicist Barry C. Barish, a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Joe Biden at a ceremony held at the White House today. Established in 1959 by the U.S. Congress, the National Medal of Science is the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and ...
Oct 26, 2023 · Barry Barish Awarded the National Medal of Science. October 26, 2023. Barry Barish, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, was recognized for exemplary service to science, including groundbreaking research on subatomic particles.
Barry C. Barish delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Nils Mårtensson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 6 MB.