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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 .
Barry Barish was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents came from Jewish families in Poland. The family then moved to Los Angeles. Barish studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctor’s degree in 1962. The following year he moved to the California Institute of Technology, where he has worked since then.
I was born in Omaha in 1936 and we spent the first 10 years of my life there. I had a brother, born in 1940. I was a quiet child, but a very good student from a young age. My father worked for his father-in-law in his automobile repair business.
Oct 5, 2017 · Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne share the 2017 prize for their work at LIGO to detect ripples in space-time. Rainer Weiss (left), Barry Barish (centre), and Kip Thorne (right), who led ...
- Davide Castelvecchi
- 2017
Barry Barish was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics ’for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves’, along with American physicists Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne. Barish became LIGO Principal Investigator in 1994. Under his leadership, LIGO was evolved into the exquisitely sensitive ...
To date the system has recorded 50 similar events, and in January 2020 reported the collision of two neutron stars. Barry Clark Barish was born in January 1936 in Omaha, Nebraska, but grew up in Los Angeles where he attended John Marshall High School. He studied physics at University of California, Berkeley, gaining a BA in 1957 and PhD in 1962.
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Dr. Barry Barish (UC Berkeley, ’55), a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics, has been awarded Sigma Alpha Mu’s 2019 Achievement Award. Fra Barish is the principal investigator at LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a collaborative project with over one thousand researchers from more than twenty countries ...
