Barry Barish is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves.
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Barry Barish is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology and a leading expert on gravitational waves.
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In 2017, Barry 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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Barry Barish joined Caltech in 1963 as part of a new experimental effort in particle physics using frontier particle accelerators at the national laboratories.
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In 1991, Barry Barish was named the Maxine and Ronald Linde Professor of Physics at Caltech.
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Barry Barish became the principal investigator of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in 1994 and director in 1997.
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Barry Barish created the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which now numbers more than 1000 collaborators worldwide to carry out the science.
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From 2001 to 2002, Barish served as co-chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel subpanel that developed a long-range plan for U S high energy physics.
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Barry Barish has chaired the Commission of Particles and Fields and the U S Liaison committee to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics .
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From 2005 to 2013, Barry Barish was Director of the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider .
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Barry Barish was honored as a Titan of Physics in the On the Shoulders of Giants series at the 2016 World Science Festival.
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In 2016, Barry 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 aspects whose solution led to the first detection of gravitational waves".
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Barry Barish was a recipient of the 2016 Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Physical Science category.
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Barry Barish was a recipient of the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for his work on gravitational waves .
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In 2018, Barry Barish was honored as the Alumnus of the year by the University of California, Berkeley.
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Barry Barish has been elected to and held fellowship at the following organizations:.
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