1936 - Today
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.
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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.
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 90
1884 - 1966
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 91
1845 - 1921
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 92
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 93
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 94
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 95
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 96
1825 - 1898
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 97
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 98
1814 - 1874
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 99
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 100
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 101
1797 - 1878
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 102
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.
1936 - 1982
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 16
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 17
1936 - 2018
HPI: 75.97
Rank: 18
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 19
1936 - 2010
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 21
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 22
1936 - 2017
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 23
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.55
Rank: 24
1936 - 1991
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 25
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.30
Rank: 26
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.15
Rank: 27
1936 - Present
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 28
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).
1915 - 2016
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 413
1947 - Present
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 414
1944 - 2003
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 415
1929 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 416
1964 - Present
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 417
1946 - Present
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 418
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 419
1938 - Present
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 420
1918 - 2020
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 421
1922 - 2007
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 422
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 423
1967 - Present
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 424
1967 - Present
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 425
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).
1918 - 1988
HPI: 80.61
Rank: 1
1868 - 1953
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 2
1904 - 1967
HPI: 77.39
Rank: 3
1892 - 1962
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 4
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 6
1797 - 1878
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 7
1881 - 1958
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 8
1901 - 1958
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 9
1908 - 1991
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 10
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 11
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 12