Kip Thorne

American physicist, writer, and Nobel Laureate (born 1940)

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) 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". With John A. Wheeler and Charles Misner, he coauthored the general relativity textbook Gravitation in 1973.

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