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Kip S. Thorne

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2017
for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
Together with: Barry C. Barish , Rainer Weiss
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
6/1/1940
place of birth
Logan
Age
86 years
educated at
  • California Institute of Technology
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Science
    • end time: 1/1/1962
  • Princeton University
    • academic degree: Doctor
    • start time: 1/1/1962
    • end time: 1/1/1965
  • Logan High School
employer
  • California Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1/1/1967
  • Princeton University
    • end time: 1/1/1966
    • start time: 1/1/1965
  • Leiden University
    • start time: 1/1/2009
  • University of Utah
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1972
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1999
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1/1/1999
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1999
  • International Astronomical Union
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • Yan-Bei Chen
  • Richard H. Price
  • Lee Samuel Finn
  • William L. Burke
  • James R. Ipser
  • Richard O'Shaughnessy
  • Benjamin J. Owen
  • Ilya Mandel
  • Michele Vallisneri
  • Bonny L. Schumaker
  • Wai-Mo Suen
  • Richard Alan Flammang
  • Kashif Alvi
  • Walter De Logi
  • Yuri Levin
  • Fernando Echeverria
  • Teviet D. Creighton
  • Kenneth Charles Jacobs
  • Gunnar Klinkhammer
  • Hua Fang
  • Douglas Alan Macdonald
  • Mark Edward Zimmermann
  • John Joseph Dykla
  • Garrett Biehle
  • Carlton M. Caves
  • Don Page
  • Mike Morris
  • William Morris Kinnersley
  • Clifford Martin Will
  • Saul A. Teukolsky
  • Alan Lightman
  • William H. Press
  • Bernard F. Schutz
  • David L. Lee
  • Sándor J. Kovács
  • Wei-Tou Ni
  • Geoffrey Lovelace
  • Chao Li
  • Scott Alexander Hughes
  • Yuk Tung Liu
  • Daniel Kennefick
  • Ulvi Yurtsever
  • Theocharis A. Apostolatos
  • Patricia Marie Purdue
  • Éanna Eamonn Flanagan
  • Pavlin Savov
  • Yekta Gürsel
  • Dragoljub Markovic
  • Fintan Ryan
  • Ian H. Redmount
  • Yi Pan
  • Xiao-He Zhang
  • Rafael Sorkin
occupation
  • astronomer
  • astrophysicist
  • university teacher
  • writer
  • physicist
field of work
  • astronomy
  • physics
  • gravitational-wave astronomy
  • general relativity
notable work
  • Black Holes and Time Warps
  • The Science of Interstellar
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