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Kip Thorne
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| Kip Thorne | |
|---|---|
 Thorne in August 2007 | |
| Born | Kip Stephen Thorne June 1, 1940 Logan, Utah, U.S. |
| Fields | Astrophysics Gravitational physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | John Archibald Wheeler |
| Doctoral students | William L. Burke[1] 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 |
| Known for | Thorne-Żytkow object Roman arch Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet |
| Notable awards | Lilienfeld Prize (1996) Albert Einstein Medal (2009)[2] 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) |
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]
References
- ↑ "Kip Stephen Thorne". North Dakota State University. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=63787. Retrieved 6 Sep 2016.
- ↑ "einstein medal". Einstein-bern.ch. http://www.einstein-bern.ch/index.php?lang=en&show=medaille. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017". The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2017. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2017/press.html. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Rincon, Paul; Amos, Jonathan (3 October 2017). "Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize". BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41476648. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Overbye, Dennis (3 October 2017). "2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/science/nobel-prize-physics.html. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Kaiser, David (3 October 2017). "Learning from Gravitational Waves". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/opinion/gravitational-waves-ligo-funding.html. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
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