Barry Barish
1936
5
Quotes
Biography
Barry Barish is an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics, born on January 27, 1936 in Omaha, Nebraska. He is best known for his contributions to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, which detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015. Barish served as the director of LIGO from 1997 to 2005, leading the project to its successful detection of gravitational waves, a remarkable achievement in the field of astrophysics.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
Gravitational waves could be very valuable for studying black holes.
2
Science is the world's greatest adventure.
3
No scientist wants competition to go away; every scientist loves competition.
4
Gravitational wave astronomy offers the new frontier in our quest to understand the universe.
5
I believe in the value of hard work and total commitment.