Kip Thorne
1 June 1940 – present
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on gravitation, black holes and gravitational waves. He spent most of his career at the California Institute of Technology and was one of the founders of the LIGO project, which made the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, and has also written popular science books and worked in film.
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Life events
Born to two academics at Utah State University.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWrote his thesis under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame one of the youngest full professors in the institute's history.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEstablished the gravitational-wave observatory with Rainer Weiss and Ronald Drever.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA popular account of general relativity that won a wide readership.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShaped the film's depiction of black holes and relativistic time dilation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe signal from a binary black hole merger had been recorded in September 2015.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish for contributions to LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves.
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