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LIGO Scientific Collaboration

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1997

Barry Clark Barish1997

Pasadena · Science / Physics

Barish establishes the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, expanding participation beyond Caltech and MIT and creating an international framework for detector research and gravitational-wave data analysis.

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Barry Clark Barish

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