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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 ...

Barry C. Barish, (born January 27, 1936, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.), 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. He shared the prize with American physicists Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne.

Barry C Barish . Distinguished Professor. Physics and Astronomy. barry.barish@ucr.edu | (951) 827-9143. barish@ligo.caltech.edu | 1-626-395-3853

Barry C. Barish. B.A., University of California, 1957; Ph.D., 1962; Laurea, h.c., University of Bologna. Research Fellow, Caltech, 1963-66; Assistant Professor, 1966-69; Associate Professor, 1969-72; Professor, 1972-91; Linde Professor, 1991-2005; Linde Professor Emeritus, 2005-.

World renowned experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate Barry Barish, PhD, will be joining Stony Brook University to serve as the inaugural President’s Distinguished Endowed Chair in Physics beginning in the fall semester of 2023.

Barry C. Barish 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. Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. B.A., University of California, 1957; Ph.D., 1962; Laurea, h.c., University of Bologna. Research Fellow, Caltech, 1963-66; Assistant Professor, 1966-69; Associate Professor, 1969-72; Professor, 1972-91; Linde Professor, 1991-2005; Linde ...

Barry C. Barish is the Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor Emeritus of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His work in experimental high-energy physics opened several approaches that helped to establish the standard model of particle physics. He helped develop the study of lepton pairs in hadronic interactions.