Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne
Thorne in August 2007
Born	Kip Stephen Thorne (1940-06-01) June 1, 1940 (age 84) 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

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.

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]

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