The second day of the World Copernican Congress began with presentations by Nobel Prize winners. The first to speak was Prof. Barry C. Barish, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.  

In his presentation “From Einstein to the new science”, Prof. Barish, from the California Institute of Technology, introduced the audience to the topic of gravitational waves and the research perspectives of this issue. According to him, by using very precise tools over the next ten years, scientists will be able to work with gravitational waves in a much more precise way. 

The Nobel laureate thanked the Congress organisers for the invitation. He said that this was not his first stay in Poland, but his first visit in the city of Nicolaus Copernicus.

“I am happy to be here with you and to celebrate the anniversary of a scientist I knew from a young age, before I became a scientist myself. This is a fantastic occasion for me”, said Prof Barish.