California Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Known for
Thorne-Żytkow object Roman arch Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet LIGO Gravitational waves Gravitation
Spouses
Linda Jean Peterson
(m. 1960; div. 1977)
Carolee Joyce Winstein
(m. 1984)
Children
2
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) Princess of Asturias Award (2017) Nobel Prize in Physics (2017) Lewis Thomas Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields
Astrophysics Gravitational physics
Institutions
California Institute of Technology Cornell University
Thesis
Geometrodynamics of cylindrical systems(1965)
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
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][5][6]
A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009[7] and speaks of the astrophysical implications of the general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.[8][9]
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^Rincon, Paul; Amos, Jonathan (October 3, 2017). "Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize". BBC News. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
^Overbye, Dennis (October 3, 2017). "2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers". The New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
^Kaiser, David (October 3, 2017). "Learning from Gravitational Waves". The New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
^"Kip S. Thorne: Biographical Sketch". www.its.caltech.edu. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
^Kevin P. Sullivan (December 16, 2013). "Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' Trailer: Watch Now". MTV. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
^"Watch Exclusive: The Science of Interstellar - WIRED - WIRED Video - CNE". WIRED Videos. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and writer known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics...
negative mass were generated in the early universe. Some physicists, such as KipThorne, have suggested how to make wormholes artificially. For a simplified notion...
non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate KipThorne, with a foreword by Christopher Nolan. The book was initially published...
Technology (Caltech) in 1974. He worked with a friend on the faculty, KipThorne, and engaged him in a scientific wager about whether the X-ray source...
a science-fiction feature based on the works of theoretical physicist KipThorne, who served as the film's executive producer. Christopher Nolan co-wrote...
Group. In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with KipThorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and...
NSF. In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rainer Weiss, KipThorne and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and...
Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and KipThorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of...
Einstein's Outrageous Legacy is a 1994 popular science book by physicist KipThorne. It provides an illustrated overview of the history and development of...
the First John Archibald Wheeler Prize (2020), together with physicist KipThorne (Caltech) and Oxford University professor Roger Penrose. This award is...
Spielberg. Based on the scientific theories of theoretical physicist KipThorne, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole...
Galaxy (2014). In The Theory of Everything, he portrayed astrophysicist KipThorne. In 2015 he joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season...
(Carl D. Anderson, Linus Pauling, William A. Fowler, Edward B. Lewis, and KipThorne), and 16 non-alumni professors (14 at the time of the award, not including...
447. Thorne, Kip S. (1994). Black Holes and Time Warps. W. W. Norton. pp. 509–513. ISBN 0-393-31276-3. Echeverria, Fernando; Gunnar Klinkhammer; Kip Thorne...
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was subsequently awarded to Rainer Weiss, KipThorne and Barry Barish for their role in the direct detection of gravitational...
Richard Feynman, David Hill, Bei-Lok Hu, John R. Klauder, Charles Misner, KipThorne, William Unruh, Robert M. Wald, Katharine Way, and Arthur Wightman. Wheeler...
and named after the Roman arch, a concept proposed by Mike Morris and KipThorne in 1988 and named after physicist Tom Roman) is a configuration of wormholes...
KipThorne helped create one of the most realistic depictions of a black hole in film. The visual effects team under Paul Franklin took KipThorne's mathematical...
of LIGO, with a panel comprising Gabriela González, Rainer Weiss and KipThorne, of LIGO, and France A. Córdova, the director of NSF. Barry Barish delivered...
by the cosmologist Dennis Sciama, then at Cambridge) in the words of KipThorne of Caltech, "Roger Penrose revolutionised the mathematical tools that...
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