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Barry Barish

1936 - Today

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Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) 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. In 2017, 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barry Barish has received more than 364,512 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Barry Barish is the 50th most popular physicist (up from 84th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from United States (up from 325th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Physicist.

Barry Barish is most famous for being the director of the LIGO project, which was the first to detect gravitational waves.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Barry Barish ranks 50 out of 851. Before him are J. J. Thomson, Philipp Lenard, William Gilbert, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Léon Foucault, and Christian Doppler. After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Wilhelm Wien, Ernst Mach, Gabriel Lippmann, and Thomas Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Barry Barish ranks 7. Before him are Pope Francis, Silvio Berlusconi, Václav Havel, Sepp Blatter, Alan Alda, and Yves Saint Laurent. After him are Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Redford, Ken Loach, Mikhail Tal, Amancio Ortega, and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 165 out of 20,380. Before him are Denzel Washington (1954), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Herbert Hoover (1874), Dale Carnegie (1888), Jackson Pollock (1912), and Olympias (-375). After him are Sharon Tate (1943), Amelia Earhart (1897), Paul Newman (1925), William James Sidis (1898), Judy Garland (1922), and Samuel L. Jackson (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 3. Before him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), and Richard Feynman (1918). After him are Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), John Bardeen (1908), Clinton Davisson (1881), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926).

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