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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 ...
Biographical. 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.
Barry C. Barish (born January 27, 1936, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.) is an American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the first direct detection of gravity waves.
Oct 3, 2017 · The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
A celebration honoring Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor, and Endowed Term Chair for Teaching, Research, and Service—Barry Barish—for being awarded the 2023 National Medal of Science.
Oct 5, 2017 · Gravitational wave detection wins physics Nobel. Davide Castelvecchi. Nature 550, 19 (2017) Cite this article. 1269 Accesses. 2 Citations. 136 Altmetric. Metrics. Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish...