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	Gravitation (1973); Gravitational-wave astronomy; Hartle–Thorne metric; Hoop conjecture; Interstellar (2014); LIGO; Membrane paradigm; Roman arch; Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet; Thorne-Żytkow object; C-energy
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; Sherry Suyu; Saul Teukolsky; Michele Vallisneri; Clifford Martin Will

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. He has also written popular science, notably Black Holes and Time Warps.

Thorne was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech from 1991 until 2009. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he advised Sagan on the physics of wormholes for his novel Contact. He was a scientific consultant for Christopher Nolan's films Interstellar and Tenet. He received the 2018 Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing.