Barry C. Barish

Research.com Recognitions

• 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
• 2017 - Henry Draper Medal, United States National Academy of Sciences Honoring Barish and Whitcomb, on behalf of the LIGO collaboration, for their visionary and pivotal leadership roles, scientific guidance, and novel instrument design during the development of LIGO that were crucial for LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, thus directly validating Einstein's 100-year-old prediction of gravitational waves and ushering a new field of gravitational wave astronomy.
• 2017 - Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
• 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2002 - Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
• 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1985 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his important contributions to the study of neutrino interactions

Overview

Best Publications

• GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  2411
  Citations

• GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

  R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  2245
  Citations

• Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  1831
  Citations

• GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M O

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham

  1531
  Citations

• Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  1351
  Citations

• Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  1338
  Citations

• GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  1102
  Citations

• GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M

  R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  1087
  Citations

• Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam

  D. G. Michael;P. Adamson;P. Adamson;P. Adamson;T. Alexopoulos;W. W M Allison

  1006
  Citations

• GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object

  R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

  939
  Citations

• Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

  R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  866
  Citations

• GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  859
  Citations

• Measurements of the meson-photon transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons at large momentum transfer

  J. Gronberg;T. S. Hill;R. Kutschke;D. J. Lange

  848
  Citations

• Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

  B.P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T.D. Abbott;S. Abraham

  825
  Citations

• Evidence for penguin-diagram decays: First observation of B→K*(892)γ

  R. Ammar;S. Ball;P. Baringer;D. Coppage

  815
  Citations

• Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  763
  Citations

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences

  R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  677
  Citations

• First measurement of the rate for the inclusive radiative penguin decay b→sγ

  M. S. Alam;I. J. Kim;Z. Ling;A. H. Mahmood

  651
  Citations

• GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

  R. Abbott;R. Abbott;T.D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  537
  Citations

• GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

  B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  507
  Citations