Kip S. Thorne
American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1940 · age 86
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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2020James Madison MedalAward2017Honorary Doctor of ETH ZürichAwardHonorary Doctor of the University Polytechnic of CataloniaAwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific ResearchAward2016Georges Lemaître PrizeAwardGruber Prize in CosmologyAwardHarvey PrizeAwardShaw PrizeAwardThe Shaw Prize in AstronomyAwardTomalla FoundationAward2010UNESCO Niels Bohr MedalAward2009Albert Einstein MedalAward1996Karl Schwarzschild MedalAward1992Richtmyer Memorial Lecture AwardAward1940Born1 June 1940
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Discussion in the main lecture hall at the École de Physique des Houches (Les Houches Physics School), 1972. From left, Yuval Ne'eman, Bryce DeWitt, Thorne, Demetrios Christodoulou.
Thorne in 1972
A wormhole is a short cut connecting two separate regions in space. In the figure the green line shows the short way through wormhole, and the red line shows the long way through normal space.
Kip Thorne lecture in Lviv, Ukraine, May 2025Awards
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Born 1940 · age 86
