Kip S. Thorne Facts
Kip S. Thorne Facts
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| Kip Stephen Thorne was born In Logan, Utah where both of his parents were professors at Utah State University. |
| His parents encouraged their children's studies and two of his four siblings are university professors. |
| Thorne earned a B.S from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and his doctoral thesis, Geometrodynamics of Cylindrical Systems, earned him a PhD from Princeton in 1965. |
| In 1967 he was an associate professor at Caltech and in 1970 became professor of theoretical physics. |
| He is considered a gifted teacher and he has personally mentored 50 PhD recipients. |
| He has presented shows on PBS and BBC on black holes, gravitational radiation, time travel and wormholes. |
| He founded LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) which is a large, multi-institutional gravity-wave experiment to measure any fluctuations between two or more static points. |
| Much of his research has focused on the mathematics and the engineering design analysis of gravitational waves. |
| He was one of the first to conduct experiments to determine if space and time can be connected within the laws of physics and permit time travel. |
| He has written about gravitational theory and high-energy astrophysics. |
| In 1973 he co-authored Gravitation, which remains the standard text on general relativity theory. |
| In 1994 he wrote Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy for the popular market and in 2014 he wrote The Science of Interstellar to explain the science behind the film. |
| He has received numerous awards including The American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy, The Phi Beta Kappa Science Writing Award,and the Lilienfeld Prize. |
| In 2003 he was chosen California Science Center's California Scientist of the Year and in 2009 he was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal. |
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