Barry Barish is the Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Caltech and faculty member at UC Riverside. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project in 1997. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rai Weiss and Kip Thorne and their teams “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” Before joining the LIGO experiment, he worked on the Superconducting Super Collider, the high-profile particle accelerator that was canceled by Congress in 1993. He has many other awards, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and served as president of the American Physical Society in 2011. Barry is a consummate scientist. He has the hands-on technical expertise, the interpersonal skills to motivate and lead, and the scientific discipline to know when to quit and went to double down. 

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