# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kip-s-thorne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:46:25.066Z

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name: "Kip S. Thorne"
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description: "Kip Stephen Thorne 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\"."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump