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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 .
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.
May 28, 2024 · Kip Thorne (born June 1, 1940, Logan, Utah) is an 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. He shared the prize with American physicists Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish.
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). Over his lifetime he had a major impact, through research and consulting, on arid ...
Telephone interview with Kip S. Thorne following the announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, 3 October 2017. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. In the interview, Kip S. Thorne reflects on how this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was a remarkable team effort.
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.”. In announcing the award, the Royal Swedish Academy called the direct ...
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Kip Thorne Gravity Award for the Best Depiction of a Scientific Principle in a Feature film, RAW Science Film Festival, for gravity in Interstellar, 2014 Space Pioneer Award for Mass Media, National Space Society, for translating black hole and wormhole physics into accurate visual effects for Interstellar, 2015
