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Barry Clark Barish

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Barry Clark Barish
Full Name
of the recipient
Barry Clark Barish
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award2017
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withRainer Weiss (33.3%)
Kip Stephen Thorne (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award
for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
Affiliation
at the Time of Award
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Place of BirthOmaha, NE, United States USA
Date of Birth27 January 1936
Age
at the time of Award
80 years
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