1936 - Today
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 344,102 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Barry Barish is the 84th most popular physicist (up from 96th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from United States (up from 419th in 2019) and the 5th 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, Barry Barish ranks 84 out of 717. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Albert A. Michelson, Ernst Ruska, Johannes Stark, and Carl David Anderson. After him are Clinton Davisson, Eugene Wigner, John Bardeen, Arnold Sommerfeld, Peter Higgs, and Paul Langevin.
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 78
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 79
1852 - 1931
HPI: 69.10
Rank: 80
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 81
1874 - 1957
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 82
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 83
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 84
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 85
1902 - 1995
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 86
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 87
1868 - 1951
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 88
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 89
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 90
Among people born in 1936, Barry Barish ranks 15. Before him are Amancio Ortega, Ken Loach, Andrei Chikatilo, Valery Legasov, Mikhail Tal, and John McCain. After him are Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Robert Woodrow Wilson, David Carradine, Barack Obama Sr., F. W. de Klerk, and Harald zur Hausen.
1936 - Present
HPI: 70.39
Rank: 9
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 10
1936 - 1994
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 11
1936 - 1988
HPI: 69.45
Rank: 12
1936 - 1992
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 13
1936 - 2018
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 14
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 15
1936 - 2019
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 16
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 17
1936 - 2009
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 18
1936 - 1982
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 19
1936 - 2021
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 20
1936 - 2023
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 21
Among people born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 325 out of 18,182. Before him are Jerry Brown (1938), Natalie Wood (1938), Barbara McClintock (1902), James Buchanan (1791), Carl David Anderson (1905), and O. Henry (1862). After him are O. J. Simpson (1947), Anton LaVey (1930), Lewis H. Morgan (1818), Clinton Davisson (1881), Michael Porter (1947), and Man Ray (1890).
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 319
1938 - 1981
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 320
1902 - 1992
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 321
1791 - 1868
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 322
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 323
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 324
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 325
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 326
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 327
1818 - 1881
HPI: 68.86
Rank: 328
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 329
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 330
1890 - 1976
HPI: 68.84
Rank: 331
Among physicists born in United States, Barry Barish ranks 5. Before him are Richard Feynman (1918), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), and Carl David Anderson (1905). After him are Clinton Davisson (1881), John Bardeen (1908), Arthur Compton (1892), Joseph Henry (1797), Kip Thorne (1940), Owen Chamberlain (1920), and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921).
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 1
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 2
1868 - 1953
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 3
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 4
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 5
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 6
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 7
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12