Barry C. Barish

Barry C. Barish, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1936-01-27 in Omaha, NE, USA

Gender: male

Field: American physicist

Biography

Barry Clark Barish 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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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

Awarded on: 2017-10-03

"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

Affiliations:

  • LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration –
  • California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
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