Kip Thorne

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He is known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.

Kip Thorne
Thorne in August 2007
Born	Kip Stephen Thorne (1940-06-01) June 1, 1940 (age 85) 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
Awards	Lilienfeld Prize (1996) Albert Einstein Medal (2009)[1] Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016) Shaw Prize (2016) Kavli Prize (2016) Harvey Prize (2016) Nobel Prize in Physics (2017)
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics Gravitational physics
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	John Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students	William L. Burke[2] 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

In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".^[3][4][5][6]