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Barry Barish
■ NAME:
Barry Barish, born 1936.
■ TITLE:
American experimental physicist from the California Institute of Technology. Since 1994, he has been working with LIGO – Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – a research project involving thousands of participants from 20 nations.
■ WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS INTERVIEW:
On 14 September 2015, Barry Barish and his colleagues Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss managed to detect gravitational waves for the first time ever using LIGO. Their observations
