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Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and writer known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. [3] [4 ...
Feb 3, 2017 · Home Page of Kip S. Thorne, The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology
Life. Kip Thorne was born in Logan, Utah. His father was an agronomist and his mother an economist. After studies at the California Institute of Technology, he obtained his doctor’s degree at Princeton University in 1965.
Biographical. My youth. I was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA, a college town of 16,000, nestled in a verdant valley in the Rocky Mountains. My father, David Wynne Thorne, was a professor of soil chemistry at the Utah Agricultural College (since renamed Utah State University).
Kip Thorne, American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the first direct detection of gravity waves.
Oct 3, 2017 · Kip Thorne, a Princeton Graduate School alumnus, is one of three recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Thorne joins Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish in winning the prize “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”
Interview with the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Read the interview. Kip S. Thorne answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): 0:06 – Why did you decide to become a physicist? 1:28 – What do you enjoy about science?
Kip S. Thorne shared the 2016 Kavli Prize in astrophysics for the direct detection of gravitational waves.
Oct 5, 2017 · Nature - Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne share the 2017 prize for their work at LIGO to detect ripples in space-time.
Oct 3, 2017 · Interstellar advisor Kip Thorne won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on gravity waves. Watch TIME's interview with Thorne.
