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