Barry Barish
American physicist and Nobel Laureate (born 1936)
Biography
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 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". He said, "I didn't know if I would succeed. I was afraid I would fail, but because I tried, I had a breakthrough."
In 2018, he joined the faculty at University of California, Riverside, becoming the university's second Nobel Prize winner on the faculty.
In the fall of 2023, he joined Stony Brook University as the inaugural President's Distinguished Endowed Chair in Physics.
In 2023, Barish was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Biden in a White House ceremony.
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- California Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Notable works
- Gravitaatioaalto
Awards & honours (13)
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Henry Draper Medal
- Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
- Enrico Fermi Prize
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna
- honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow
- honorary doctor of Sofia University
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- Cocconi Prize
- Honorary doctorate of the University of Florida
- National Medal of Science
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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- Barry Barish is 90 years old (born January 27, 1936).
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- Barry Barish was born on January 27, 1936.
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- Barry Barish was born in Omaha.
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