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Barry C. Barish

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Also known as Barry Clark Barish, B.C. Barish, Barry Barish, Barry C Barish

American physicist

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Barry Clark Barish is an American physicist and astrophysicist who serves as a university teacher. Born in Omaha in 1936, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His professional career includes employment at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in the fields of experimental physics, physics, and astrophysics.

Barish is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society. He has received several honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Henry Draper Medal, the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and the Enrico Fermi Prize. He is the author of the book *Einstein Was Right*.

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  • Einstein Was Right

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Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States

Discography

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5 total works indexed

  1. One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12 using PCR products

    · 2000 · cited 14,094x

  2. <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations

    · 1983 · cited 13,595x

  3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,698x

  4. Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions

    · 2001 · cited 11,540x

  5. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,201x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2017

    “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Omaha
Occupation
astrophysicist
Educated at
University of California, Berkeley
Employer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Field of work
astrophysics
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date of birth
1936-01-27
member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
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name in native language
Barry Barish
birth name
Barry Clark Barish
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interested in
experimental physics
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Encyclopedic overview

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."

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