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Alumnus awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley alum Barry Barish, a retired Caltech physicist, has run many huge physics collaborations during his career. But his most rewarding was the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, called LIGO, which in 2015 detected the first gravitational waves — predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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Alumnus awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley alum Barry Barish, a retired Caltech physicist, has run many huge physics collaborations during his career. But his most rewarding was the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, called LIGO, which in 2015 detected the first gravitational waves — predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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Alumnus awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley alum Barry Barish, a retired Caltech physicist, has run many huge physics collaborations during his career. But his most rewarding was the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, called LIGO, which in 2015 detected the first gravitational waves — predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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Alumnus awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley alum Barry Barish, a retired Caltech physicist, has run many huge physics collaborations during his career. But his most rewarding was the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, called LIGO, which in 2015 detected the first gravitational waves — predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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Alumnus awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley alum Barry Barish, a retired Caltech physicist, has run many huge physics collaborations during his career. But his most rewarding was the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, called LIGO, which in 2015 detected the first gravitational waves — predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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Alumnus awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

Berkeley alum Barry Barish, a retired Caltech physicist, has run many huge physics collaborations during his career. But his most rewarding was the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, called LIGO, which in 2015 detected the first gravitational waves — predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

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