PHYSICIST

Barry Barish

1936 - Today

Photo of Barry Barish

Icon of person Barry Barish

Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barry Barish has received more than 243,877 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Barry Barish is the 96th most popular physicist (up from 110th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from United States (down from 366th in 2019) and the 6th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 21.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Barry Barishes by language


Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Barry Barish ranks 96 out of 721. Before him are Carl David Anderson, Peter Debye, Gabriel Lippmann, Ernst Abbe, Ernst Ruska, and William Henry Bragg. After him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Glover Barkla, Anders Jonas Ångström, Hippolyte Fizeau, Pavel Cherenkov, and Joseph Henry.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Barry Barish ranks 22. Before him are Barack Obama Sr., Richard Bach, John McCain, F. W. de Klerk, Dennis Hopper, and Robert Woodrow Wilson. After him are Glen Campbell, Ursula Andress, Michael Landon, Uwe Seeler, Aga Khan IV, and Ismail Kadare.

Others Born in 1936

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United States

Among people born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 419 out of 15,968. Before him are Jerome Bruner (1915), Iggy Pop (1947), Robert Kardashian (1944), Chet Baker (1929), Jeff Bezos (1964), and Susan Sarandon (1946). After him are Bernie Madoff (1938), Katherine Johnson (1918), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), James Caan (1940), Nicole Kidman (1967), and Julia Roberts (1967).

Others born in United States

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 6. Before him are Richard Feynman (1918), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Arthur Compton (1892), and Carl David Anderson (1905). After him are Joseph Henry (1797), Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), John Bardeen (1908), Kip Thorne (1940), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839).

American born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • Datawheel