Kip Thorne
American physicist
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.
Kip Thorne | |
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 Thorne in August 2007 | |
| Born | Kip Stephen Thorne June 1, 1940 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 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 |
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
change- ↑ "einstein medal". Einstein-bern.ch. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ↑ "Kip Stephen Thorne". Mathematics Geneaogy Project. North Dakota State University. Retrieved 6 Sep 2016.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017". The Nobel Foundation. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Rincon, Paul; Amos, Jonathan (3 October 2017). "Einstein's waves win Nobel Prize". BBC News. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Overbye, Dennis (3 October 2017). "2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Black Hole Researchers". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ↑ Kaiser, David (3 October 2017). "Learning from Gravitational Waves". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
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