Kip S. Thorne
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican physicist (born 1940)
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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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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 24
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Margaret HamiltonAlso won honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia
Martin ReesAlso won honorary doctor of ETH Zürich
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Also won Tomalla Foundation
Arthur B. McDonaldAlso won Cocconi PrizeArthur D. LevinsonAlso won James Madison Medal
Saul PerlmutterAlso won Albert Einstein MedalAbout this person
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1940 · age 86
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