Barry C. Barish was awarded Nobel Prize 2017 in Physics "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."
Nationality United States of America
Institution Caltech - California Institute of Technology
Award 2017
Discipline Physics
Co-recipients Rainer Weiss , Kip S. Thorne
MotivationAwarded with Nobel Prize 2017 in Physics "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."
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