Barry C. Barish
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2017for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 1/27/1936
- place of birth
- Omaha
- Age
- 90 years
- educated at
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- University of California, Berkeley
- end time: 1/1/1962
- John Marshall High School
- University of California, Berkeley
- member of
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- Russian Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/1/2019
- Royal Society
- start time: 1/1/2019
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/1/2002
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- field of work
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- experimental physics
- astrophysics
- physics
- employer
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- California Institute of Technology
- occupation
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- physicist
- astrophysicist
- university teacher
- experimental physicist
- notable work
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- Gravitaatioaalto
- doctoral student
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- Erotokritos Katsavounidis