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Kip Thorne is an American physicist born in 1940 who has made significant contributions to theoretical physics. While specific details of his work and impact are not provided in the available information, he is recognized as a notable figure in the field of physics.
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- Born
- 01 June 1940
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- 14
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- The future of spacetime
- Quantum measurement
- The Science of Interstellar
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- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
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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.
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