Barry C. Barish
American physicist and Nobel Laureate (born 1936)
University of California, Riverside
Omaha, NE
Barry Clark Barish 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.
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Barry Clark Barish 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.
Affiliation
University of California, Riverside
Top Publications
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger (2016) - 14,227 citations
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral (2017) - 9,546 citations
- GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs (2019) - 3,535 citations
- Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A (2017) - 3,528 citations
- GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State (2018) - 2,423 citations
At a glance
- Full name
- Barry C. Barish
- Born
- 1936-01-27
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-6386-7371
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5040898326
Research interests
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Particle Detector Development and Performance, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
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Most-cited linked publications
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- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ↗2016 · Physical Review Letters14,227OpenAlex citations
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral ↗2017 · Physical Review Letters9,546OpenAlex citations
- 3,535OpenAlex citations
- Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A ↗2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters3,528OpenAlex citations
- GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State ↗2018 · Physical Review Letters2,423OpenAlex citations
Recent linked publications
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- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ↗2016 · Physical Review Letters
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral ↗2017 · Physical Review Letters
- Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A ↗2017 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State ↗2018 · Physical Review Letters
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Awards & honors
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2017) — for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
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