Kip Thorne facts for kids

Kip Thorne
Quick facts for kids Kip Thorne
	Thorne in August 2007
Born	Kip Stephen Thorne ; June 1, 1940 (age 81); 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); 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; 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

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.

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".

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Discussion in the main lecture hall at the École de Physique des Houches (Les Houches Physics School), 1972. From left, Yuval Ne'eman, Bryce DeWitt, Thorne, Demetrios Christodoulou.
Thorne in 1972
A wormhole is a short cut connecting two separate regions in space. In the figure the green line shows the short way through wormhole, and the red line shows the long way through normal space.