Extra: Chewin' the fat with a Nobel Laureate

In this podcast extra episode, Jeni teams up with our good friend
Dr Chris North from the Pythagoras Trousers podcast to speak to
Caltech’s Linde Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate Barry
Barish. In this interview we discuss:


The early days of experimental particle physics

Building the advances in technologies for today’s experiments
and detectors

The fear of failure creating resistance to building LIGO

Wanting to collect direct detections of signals from the Big
Bang

The first detection of gravitational waves

The pomp, circumstance & minutiae of a Nobel Prize award

Post Nobel science influence

Advice for people wanting a career in STEM