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Barry Barish

1936 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barry Barish is the 94th most popular physicist (down from 50th in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from United States (down from 165th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Physicist.

Barry Barish is most famous for being the director of the LIGO project, which was the first to detect gravitational waves.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Barry Barish ranks 94 out of 851. Before him are Rudolf Clausius, Robert Andrews Millikan, Georg Bednorz, C. F. Powell, Otto von Guericke, and Carl David Anderson. After him are Ben Roy Mottelson, J. Hans D. Jensen, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, and Eugene Wigner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Barry Barish ranks 9. Before him are Václav Havel, Sepp Blatter, Mario Vargas Llosa, Yves Saint Laurent, Robert Redford, and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. After him are Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, Ismail Kadare, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Margaret Hamilton, and Ken Loach.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 288 out of 20,380. Before him are Burt Lancaster (1913), Bill Paxton (1955), James Buchanan (1791), Carl Sagan (1934), John Travolta (1954), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803). After him are Tony Curtis (1925), Val Kilmer (1959), William Boeing (1881), Jerome Powell (1953), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 10. Before him are Richard Feynman (1918), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), and Carl David Anderson (1905). After him are Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), and Willis Lamb (1913).

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