Barry Barish is an American experimental physicist who directed the LIGO project from 1994, reorganizing it into the large international collaboration capable of building Advanced LIGO and making the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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In 1994, after consultation between relevant NSF personnel, LIGOs scientific leaders, and the presidents of MIT and Caltech, Vogt stepped down and Barry Barish (Caltech) was appointed laboratory director, and the NSF made clear that LIGO had one last chance for support.
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Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate.
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* Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002) * Enrico Fermi Prize (2016) * He
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