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Kip Stephen Thorne was born in Logan, Utah, in June 1940, and raised in a Mormon, academic home with four siblings of whom two are also professors. Thorne is now an atheist. He earned his BSc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1962, and his PhD just three years later at Princeton. Thorne then returned to Caltech as an ...
Nov 21, 2014 · 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 Sagan.
"LIGO and Gravitational Waves III"Kip S. Thorne delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
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Thorne. Kip S. Thorne (Photo: Peter Bagde). Kip Thorne was born in Utah and studied physics at the California Institute of Technology. After obtaining his PhD from Princeton University in 1965 and carrying out two years of postdoctoral study, he returned to Caltech and has worked there ever since. Thorne has carried out a wide range of ...
Oct 31, 2023 · Kip Thorne, a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, is the author of the best-selling books Black Holes and Time Warps and The Science of Interstellar. He lives in Pasadena, California.
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Physicist Kip Thorne is internationally known for his contributions to gravitational physics and astrophysics as a researcher and author. Thorne competed in STS in 1958, going on to earn a doctoral degree in physics from Princeton University in 1965. Today, he is professor emeritus of theoretical physics at Caltech, where he has worked for over ...
