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Kip Thorne
American physicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He is known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.
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![]() Thorne in August 2007 | |
Born | Kip Stephen Thorne (1940-06-01) June 1, 1940 (age 84) Logan, Utah, U.S. |
Education | California Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (MS, PhD) |
Known for | Thorne-Żytkow object Roman arch Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet |
Awards | Lilienfeld Prize (1996) Albert Einstein Medal (2009)[1] Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016) Shaw Prize (2016) Kavli Prize (2016) Harvey Prize (2016) Nobel Prize in Physics (2017) |
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Fields | Astrophysics Gravitational physics |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | John Archibald Wheeler |
Doctoral students | William L. Burke[2] Carlton M. Caves Lee Samuel Finn Sándor J. Kovács David L. Lee Alan Lightman Don N. Page William H. Press Richard H. Price Bernard F. Schutz Saul Teukolsky Clifford Martin Will |
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In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".[3][4][5][6]