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- Barry Barish, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, was recognized for exemplary service to science, including groundbreaking research on subatomic particles.
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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 C. Barish, American physicist who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and the first direct detection of gravity waves. He shared the prize with Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne.
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. R. 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.
Watch a video clip of the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Barry C. Barish, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 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.
Prof. Dr. Barry C. Barish > CV The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics celebrated one big idea – Albert Einstein’s 1916 theory of relativity – and the work of three men in the hunt for the gravitational waves he predicted, but which would remain elusive for a further century.
