Kip Thorne

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Kip_Thorne

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gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkbp:award	gptkb:Albert_Einstein_Medal gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences_Fellow gptkb:Dirac_Medal gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics gptkb:award gptkb:Kavli_Prize gptkb:Lilienfeld_Prize gptkb:Tomalla_Prize National Academy of Sciences member American Physical Society Fellow
gptkbp:birthDate	1940-06-01
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Logan,_Utah,_United_States
gptkbp:children	2
gptkbp:coauthor	gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler gptkb:Stephen_Hawking gptkb:Charles_W._Misner gptkb:Igor_Novikov gptkb:Roger_Blandford
gptkbp:consultedFor	gptkb:Interstellar_(film)
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:John_Archibald_Wheeler
gptkbp:doctoralStudent	gptkb:Éanna_Flanagan gptkb:Anna_Żytkow gptkb:Beverly_Berger gptkb:Clifford_M._Will gptkb:Lee_Samuel_Finn gptkb:Saul_Teukolsky gptkb:Sean_Carroll gptkb:Yuri_Levin
gptkbp:employer	gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkbp:field	gptkb:theoretical_physics astrophysics gravitational physics
gptkbp:fullName	gptkb:Kip_Stephen_Thorne
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Kip Thorne
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:LIGO black holes gravitational waves time travel theories wormholes
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:American
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear	2017 decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
gptkbp:notableWork	gptkb:Black_Holes_and_Time_Warps:_Einstein's_Outrageous_Legacy gptkb:Gravitation_(book) gptkb:The_Science_of_Interstellar
gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:physicist author
gptkbp:position	Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus
gptkbp:spouse	gptkb:Carolee_Joyce_Winstein gptkb:Linda_Jean_Peterson
gptkbp:website	https://www.its.caltech.edu/~kip/
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