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  1. Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein s general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research... Read More

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  3. Kip Thorne - Wikipedia

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    Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan , he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 [3 ...

  4. Kip Thorne | Biography & Facts | Britannica

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    Kip Thorne, in full Kip Stephen Thorne, (born June 1, 1940, Logan, Utah), American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the first direct detection of gravity waves.

  5. Kip S. Thorne – Facts - NobelPrize.org

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    Kip S. Thorne The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 . Born: 1 June 1940, Logan, UT, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, ; California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA . Prize motivation: “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Prize share: 1/4

  6. Kip S. Thorne – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

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    Kip S. Thorne Biographical My youth. I was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA, a college town of 16,000, nestled in a verdant valley in the Rocky Mountains. My father, David Wynne Thorne, was a professor of soil chemistry at the Utah Agricultural College (since renamed Utah State University).

  7. Kip S. Thorne | The Division of Physics, Mathematics and ...

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    Kip S. Thorne Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus Research Website B.S., Caltech, 1962; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965; D.Sc.h.c., Illinois College; Utah State University; University of Chicago; D.h.c., Moscow University; University of Glasgow; L.H.D.h.c., The Claremont Graduate University.

  8. Kip Thorne - IMDb

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    Kip Thorne Actor Producer Additional Crew IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Kip Thorne was born on 1 June 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Interstellar (2014), The Big Bang Theory (2007) and A Brief History of Time (1991). He has been married to Carolee Joyce Winstein since 7 July 1984.

  9. Time Travel and Wormholes: Kip Thorne's Wildest Theories | Space

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    (Image credit: NASA) Kip Thorne, the physicist who brought real science to the movie "Interstellar," has a history of coming up with ideas that sound like they are straight out of science...

  10. Great Read: Meet the astrophysicist whose 1980 blind date led ...

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    Theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne was a divorced, single dad raising a teenage daughter when he got a call in September 1980 from a close friend — who happened to be fellow scientist Carl...

  11. Modern Classical Physics | Princeton University Press

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    Kip S. Thorne, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, is the Feynman Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. His books include Gravitation (Princeton) and Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy .

  12. Kip Thorne - Biography - IMDb

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    Kip Thorne was born on June 1, 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Interstellar (2014), The Big Bang Theory (2007) and A Brief History of Time (1991). He has been married to Carolee Joyce Winstein since July 7, 1984. He was previously married to Linda Jean Peterson.