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Kip S. Thorne

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Kip S. Thorne

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Also known as Kip Stephen Thorne, Kip Thorne, K.S. Thorne, Dr. Kip Thorne

American physicist (born 1940)

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Kip S. Thorne is a person born on 01 June 1940. He is associated with the country code DE. His published works include *The future of spacetime*, *Quantum measurement*, *The Science of Interstellar*, *Mayres trypes kai strevlōseis tou chronou*, and *Xing ji xiao ying*.

Thorne has received recognition in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Physics collection. He is referenced by 1,013 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
01 June 1940
Works
14

Top works

  • The future of spacetime
  • Quantum measurement
  • The Science of Interstellar
  • Mayres trypes kai strevlōseis tou chronou
  • Xing ji xiao ying

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DE
Active from
1685-03-21
Active to
1750-07-28

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,688x

  2. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    · 2017 · cited 8,250x

  3. Review of Particle Physics

    · 2018 · cited 5,726x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    · 2016 · cited 5,699x

  5. Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    · 2016 · cited 5,082x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2017

    “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kip S. Thorne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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