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Kip Thorne

American physicist (born 1940)

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Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

Quick facts

Born
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Place of birth
Logan wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
physicist, astronomer, writer, university teacher, astrophysicist wd
Education
California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Logan High School wd

Awards wd

  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (2010)
  • Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1996)
  • Dr. Tomalla Prize (2016)
  • James Joyce Awards
  • Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016)
  • Harvey Prize (2016)
  • Albert Einstein Medal (2009)
  • Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2016)
  • Shaw Prize (2016)
  • Georges Lemaître Prize (2016)
  • Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2017)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (2017)
  • Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1992)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society

About

With John A. Wheeler and Charles Misner, he coauthored the general relativity textbook Gravitation in 1973. He has also written popular science, notably Black Holes and Time Warps in 1994 which was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for that year.

Thorne was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech from 1991 until 2009. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he advised Sagan on the physics of wormholes for his novel Contact. He was a scientific consultant for Christopher Nolan's films Interstellar and Tenet. He received the 2018 Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing.

Questions

When was Kip Thorne born?
Kip Thorne was born on 1 June 1940 in Logan.
Where did Kip Thorne study?
Kip Thorne was educated at California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Logan High School.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Kip Thorne · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q323320 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Kip Thorne at Caltech.jpg by Keenan Pepper (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 4 November 2026

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