Kip Thorne
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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| File:Kip Thorne at Caltech.jpg Thorne in August 2007 | |
| Born | Kip Stephen Thorne 1 June 1940 (aged 85) 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) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics Gravitational physics |
| Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
| 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 |
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]
Kip Thorne Media
- École de Physique des Houches (Les Houches Physics School) main lecture hall 1972.jpg
Discussion in the main lecture hall at the École de Physique des Houches (Les Houches Physics School), 1972. From left, Yuval Ne'eman, Bryce DeWitt, Thorne, Demetrios Christodoulou.
Astrophysicist Kip S. Thorne in 1972 photo.
- Cylindrical Bundle of Magnetic Field Lines.svg
A cylindrical bundle of magnetic field lines
- Wormhole-demo.png
A wormhole is a short cut connecting two separate regions in space. In the figure the green line shows the short way through wormhole, and the red line shows the long way through normal space.
- Kip Thorne on OL Science & Tech Fest 2025 (cropped).jpg
Kip Thorne lecture in Lviv, Ukraine, May 2025
References
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ 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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