Barry Barish
American physicist
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Born 1936 · age 90United States
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Experimental physicist who won a Nobel for detecting gravitational waves—invisible ripples in spacetime that Einstein predicted a century earlier. Barish helped lead the LIGO project that finally proved them real in 2015.
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Barry Clark Barish 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.
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