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Kip S. Thorne
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Person

Kip S. Thorne

b. 1940

American physicist (born 1940)

Born
1 Jun 1940 · Logan

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 99 years
  1. 1 Jun 1940BornBorn in Logan
  2. 1992AwardRichtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
  3. 1996AwardKarl Schwarzschild Medal
  4. 1996AwardLilienfeld Prize
  5. 2009AwardAlbert Einstein Medal
  6. 2010AwardUNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
  7. 2016AwardDr. Tomalla Prize
  8. 2016AwardGeorges Lemaître Prize
  9. 2016AwardGruber Prize in Cosmology
  10. 2016AwardHarvey Prize
  11. 2016AwardKavli Prize in Astrophysics
  12. 2016AwardShaw Prize
  13. 2016AwardThe Shaw Prize in Astronomy

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1940 – today).

  1. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  2. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  3. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  4. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  5. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  6. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  7. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  8. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  10. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  11. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  12. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  13. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  14. 1956Suez Crisis
  15. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  17. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  19. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  21. 1968Prague Spring
  22. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  23. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  24. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  25. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  27. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  28. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  29. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  30. 1985Schengen Agreement
  31. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  32. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  33. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  35. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  37. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  39. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  40. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Biography

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. He has also written popular science, notably Black Holes and Time Warps in 1994 which was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for that year.

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Kip Thorne, CC BY-SA 4.0

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