Barry Barish is an American physicist renowned for his contributions to experimental physics, particularly in the field of gravitational wave research. He played a pivotal role in the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which made history in 2015 by detecting gravitational waves for the first time, a groundbreaking achievement that confirmed a major prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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