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]
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) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
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]
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