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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 .
In 1929, just before the U.S. depression, the Barish family moved to Omaha, Nebraska. My grandfather had died in Sioux City when my father was only 10 years old. Although his mother remarried, my father had to work from a young age to help support the family.
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.
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 share: 1/4.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was bestowed upon Barry Barish, Rainer Weiss, and Kip Thorne for their landmark discovery of gravitational waves. Upon receiving the award, Barry Barish emphasized that it also served as a significant “victory for Einstein.”
Feb 22, 2008 · Barish recalls the complete surprise of the congressional decision on a budget that President Bush had put forward in February 2007. “We went to bed as normal on Friday (14 December), and woke up on Monday to find the project axed out.”
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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.
