
Barry C. Barish
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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 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
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Events - Lecture by Nobel Laureate Barry C. Barish: "From Einstein to Gravitational Waves"
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates, (from left) Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss, pose during a joint press conference in December 2017 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm.
Nobel Laureate Barry Barish joins UC Riverside faculty - University of California, Riverside