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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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science · American physicist, writer, and Nobel Laureate (born 1940) · physicist · astronomer · writer · university teacher · astrophysicist · also Kip S. Thorne, Kip Thorne, Kip Stephen Thorne, K.S. Thorne, Dr. Kip Thorne, Thorne
Born 1 June 1940 · Q323320
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There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God .... There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God.
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“There always is a very small but real danger of a catastrophic event on Earth … from gigantic asteroids or unexpected biological development. The human race has a yearning to explore. That”
“There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God .... There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God.”
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 3,377 times.
Was awarded an honorary doctorate from University of Cambridge
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Won James Madison Medal (2020).
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Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics — cited 3,759 times.
Published “The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer” in Nature — cited 3,346 times.
Published “Review of Particle Physics” in Physical Review D — cited 5,730 times.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
Awarded Cocconi Prize (2017).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia (2017).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2017).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2017).
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Awarded honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (2017).
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Thorne gave the George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of Colorado Boulder, on “Probing the Warped Side of the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
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Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
Awarded Dr. Tomalla Prize (2016).
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Awarded Shaw Prize (2016).
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Awarded Georges Lemaître Prize (2016).
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Awarded The Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2016).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2016).
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Awarded Harvey Prize (2016).
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Awarded Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016).
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Won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2016).
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A team of four physicists representing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, announced that in September 2015, LIGO recorded the signature of two black holes colliding 1
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
Collaborated with Obst and Stephen Hawking on a movie script, for which they wrote several drafts
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Published The Science of Interstellar, in which he explains the science behind Christopher Nolan's film; Nolan wrote the foreword
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Won UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (2010).
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Won Albert Einstein Medal (2009).
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From the Albert Einstein Society, Bern, Switzerland
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Won Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1996).
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Awarded Lilienfeld Prize (1996).
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Which was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for that year
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Published Black Holes and Time Warps, a popular science book that traces black holes from John Michell to Stephen Hawking and beyond
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Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1992).
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Cofounded the LIGO Project (the largest project ever funded by the NSF) to discern and measure any fluctuations between two or more 'static' points; such fluctuations would be evidence of gravitational waves, as calcu
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And the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991
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Thorne co-authored Gravitation with Charles Misner and John A
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And became a professor of theoretical physics in 1970, becoming one of the youngest full professors in the history of Caltech at age 30
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Studied at Princeton University, Doctor (1962–1965).
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Studied at California Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1962).
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And his master and PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1964 and 1965 under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler with a doctoral dissertation on Geometrodynamics of Cylindrical Systems
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Born 1940-06-01.
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