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Barry Barish | |
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| Born | Barry Clark Barish January 27, 1936 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Awards | Klopsteg Memorial Award (2002) Enrico Fermi Prize (2016) American Ingenuity Award (2016) Henry Draper Medal (2017) The Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize (2017) Princess of Asturias Award (2017) Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award (2017) Nobel Prize in Physics (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
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. He is a leading expert on gravitational waves, and is of Jewish descent.[1]
In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".[2][3][4][5]
- ↑ Oralhistories.library.caltech.edu
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017". The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Rincon, Paul; Amos, Jonathan (3 October 2017). "Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize". BBC News. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Overbye, Dennis (3 October 2017). "2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Kaiser, David (3 October 2017). "Learning from Gravitational Waves". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.