Barry Barish
American physicist
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| 2023 | Awarded the inaugural Copernicus Prize by the Polish government and the National Medal of Science for groundbreaking research on sub-atomic particles and leadership in gravitational wave detection. |
| 2023 | Joined Stony Brook University as the inaugural President's Distinguished Endowed Chair in Physics. |
| 2023 | Awarded the National Medal of Science by President Biden in a White House ceremony. |
| 2018 | Honored as Alumnus of the Year by the University of California, Berkeley. Received honorary doctorates from Southern Methodist University and Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. |
| 2018 | Joined the faculty at University of California, Riverside, becoming the university's second Nobel Prize winner on the faculty. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. |
| 2016 | Honored as a Titan of Physics at the World Science Festival and received the Enrico Fermi Prize for fundamental contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave detection. |
| 2013 | Received an honorary degree of science from the University of Glasgow. |
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