Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne
	Thorne in 2022
Born	Kip Stephen Thorne; June 1, 1940; Logan, Utah, U.S.
Education	California Institute of Technology (BS); Princeton University (MS, PhD)
Known for	Thorne-Żytkow object; Roman arch; Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet; LIGO; Gravitational waves; Gravitation
Spouses	; Linda Jean Peterson (m. 1960; div. 1977) Carolee Joyce Winstein (m. 1984)
Children	2
Awards	Lilienfeld Prize (1996); Albert Einstein Medal (2009); Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016); Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016); Shaw Prize (2016); Kavli Prize (2016); Harvey Prize (2016); Princess of Asturias Award (2017); Nobel Prize in Physics (2017); Lewis Thomas Prize (2018)
	Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics; Gravitational physics
Institutions	California Institute of Technology; Cornell University
Thesis	Geometrodynamics of cylindrical systems (1965)
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students	William L. Burke; Carlton M. Caves; Lee Samuel Finn; Sándor J. Kovács; David L. Lee; Alan Lightman; Don N. Page; William H. Press; Richard H. Price; Bernard F. Schutz; Saul Teukolsky; Clifford Martin Will

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

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 speaks of the astrophysical implications of the general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.

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