Barry C. Barish (Physics Nobel 2017) Age, Wife, Biography, Facts & More

Bio
Full Name	Barry Clark Barish
Profession	Physicist
Fields	Experimental High Energy Physics
Thesis	184-inch cyclotron
Doctoral Advisor	Not Known
Awards/Achievements	• Received the Klopsteg Memorial Award in 2002 • Honored with the Enrico Fermi Prize in 2016 • In 2016, awarded the American Ingenuity Award • Bestowed with the Henry Draper Medal in 2017 • Honored with The Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize in 2017 • In 2017, received the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award • Along with scientists Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne, awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for 'decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves'
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 183 cm in meters- 1.83 m in feet inches- 6’
Weight (approx.)	in Kilograms- 80 kg in Pounds- 176 lbs
Eye Colour	Hazel Brown
Hair Colour	White
Personal Life
Date of Birth	January 27, 1936
Age (as in 2017)	81 Years
Birth Place	Omaha, Nebraska
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Aquarius
Nationality	American
Hometown	Southern California, U.S.
School	Monroe Elementary School King Junior High School, Ohio John Marshall High School, Los Angeles
College/University	University of California, Berkeley
Educational Qualification	Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics
Family	Not Known
Religion	Not Known
Ethnicity	American
Girls, Affairs and More
Marital Status	Married
Wife	Not Known
Children	Not Known

Some Lesser Known Facts About Barry C. Barish

After having completed his Ph.D. in 1962, Barish joined the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) to conduct experiments in particle physics using frontier particle accelerators.

In 1994, he was appointed as the principal investigator of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Within 3 years, he became the director of the Observatory and held the position until 2005.

Barish is credited with creating the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, a joint effort of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves. Notably, it has over 1,000 collaborators worldwide.

Barish, along with fellow scientists Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”. While Weiss takes away one-half of the total prize money (£825,000), Barish and Thorne will share half of the remaining prize.