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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 .
May 9, 2024 · 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.
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 share: 1/4.
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.
Barry C. Barish delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Nils Mårtensson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 6 MB.
Dec 8, 2017 · "LIGO and Gravitational Waves II"Barry C. Barish delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
Barry Barish is a professor of physics at Caltech and the director of LIGO, the project that detected gravitational waves in 2015. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2017 with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the development of gravitational-wave astronomy.
