Was awarded the National Medal of Science for "exemplary service to science, including groundbreaking research on sub-atomic particles
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Barry C. Barish
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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science · American physicist and Nobel Laureate (born 1936) · experimental physicist · university teacher · physicist · astrophysicist · also Barry C. Barish, Barry Barish, Barry Clark Barish, B.C. Barish, Barry C Barish, Barish
Born 27 January 1936 · Q15900993
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2023· 3 entries
Barish was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Biden in a White House ceremony
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Was awarded the inaugural the Copernicus Prize, bestowed by the government of Poland on "those who made exceptional contributions to the development of world science
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2022· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2022).
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2019).
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2018· 4 entries
Barish was honored as the Alumnus of the year by the University of California, Berkeley
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Joined the faculty at University of California, Riverside, becoming the university's second Nobel Prize winner on the faculty
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Was conferred the Honorary Degree Doctor Honoris Causa of Sofia University St
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Received an honorary doctorate at Southern Methodist University
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2017· 8 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2017).
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Awarded Cocconi Prize (2017).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2017).
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Won Henry Draper Medal (2017).
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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"
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Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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Won the Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne) "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
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2016· 4 entries
Awarded Enrico Fermi Prize (2016).
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Simultaneously with the public announcement
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Barish received the Enrico Fermi Prize "for his fundamental contributions to the formation of the LIGO and LIGO-Virgo scientific collaborations and for his role in addressing challenging technological and scientific aspe
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow (2013).
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2007· 1 entry
Delivered the Van Vleck lectures at the University of Minnesota
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003).
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2002· 2 entries
Received the Klopsteg Memorial Award of the American Association of Physics Teachers
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Chaired the NRC Board of Physics and Astronomy Neutrino Facilities Assessment Committee Report, "Neutrinos and Beyond"
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1994· 1 entry
The construction and commissioning of the LIGO interferometers in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA in 1997
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1991· 1 entry
Barish was named the Maxine and Ronald Linde Professor of Physics at Caltech
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1963· 1 entry
As part of a new experimental effort in particle physics using frontier particle accelerators at the national laboratories
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1962· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley (1962).
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1936· 1 entry
Born 1936-01-27.
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1916· 1 entry
And the first ever observation of the merger of a pair of black holes
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