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Apr 13, 2018 · Two events held Thursday, April 12 — the 43rd Hamilton lecture given by Nobel laureate Kip Thorne and a plaque dedicated to Princeton physicist Robert Dicke — highlighted the history of gravitational research at Princeton. A public lecture by physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1965, recognized the ...
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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 ...
Oct 5, 2017 · Physicist Kip Thorne *65 had a night of interrupted sleep Oct. 3 for one of the best reasons of all: a call from Sweden. Thorne was told at about 2:15 a.m. that he, along with collaborators Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).
Oct 3, 2017 · Kip Thorne went on to study at Caltech under theoretical physics luminary John Wheeler and was a full professor by age 30. His work on gravitational waves had already begun by then, but it would ...
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.
Oct 5, 2017 · Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne share the 2017 prize for their work at LIGO to detect ripples in space-time. Rainer Weiss (left), Barry Barish (centre), and Kip Thorne (right), who led ...
