Kip Thorne - Wikipedia
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. [4] [5 ...
Kip Thorne | Biography & Facts | Britannica
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.
Kip S. Thorne – Facts - NobelPrize.org
Kip S. Thorne The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 Born: 1 June 1940, Logan, UT, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, ; California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA Prize motivation: “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
Kip S. Thorne – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
Kip Thorne *65: A Celebrated Finding, a Coveted Prize
2017年10月5日 · Kip Thorne *65, the scientist behind Interstellar, gets a new title: Movie Mogul. Then one night in 1975, Weiss, a physics professor at MIT, and Thorne, now professor emeritus of physics at Caltech, stayed up all night puzzling how these waves might be detected.
Kip Thorne and the mind-bending science of Interstellar
2024年1月5日 · Kip Thorne and his contribution to Interstellar helped make it one of the most engaging and accurate sci-fi films ever made.
Kip S. Thorne: Biographical Sketch - its.caltech.edu
2018年11月13日 · Born in Logan Utah in 1940, Kip Thorne received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965. After two years of postdoctoral study, Thorne returned to Caltech as an Associate professor in 1967, was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1970, became The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor in 1981 ...
Home Page of Kip S. Thorne
2017年2月3日 · Home Page of Kip S. Thorne, The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology
Princeton alumnus Thorne, former
2017年10月3日 · 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.”
Kip S. Thorne - Kavli Prize
In addition to awards recognising his work as a writer and a science advisor to the film Interstellar, Thorne has won the Lilienfeld Prize, the Niels Bohr Gold Medal, the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, among others.