Kip Thorne (1940)
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American astrophysicist and author.
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Kip Thorne (1940)
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American astrophysicist and author.
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Why is Kip Thorne remembered?
Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Kip Thorne was one of those people.
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About Kip Thorne
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".
With John A. Wheeler and Charles Misner, he coauthored the general relativity textbook Gravitation. He has also written popular science, notably Black Holes and Time Warps.
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.
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