In what has got to be one of the highest level fix-ups of all time, in 1980, astronomer Carl Sagan fixed up his friend, physicist Kip Thorne, with movie producer Lynda Obst. The match wasn't as B orn in Logan Utah in 1940, Kip Thorne received his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1965. After two years of postdoctoral study, Thorne returned to Caltech as an Associate professor in 1967, was promoted to Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1970, became The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor in 1981 LIGO and Gravitational Waves III. Kip S. Thorne delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Nils Mårtensson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 9 MB. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017.The 2018 Reines Lecture was presented by Kip Thorne, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the detection of gravitational waves. The discovery, part Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. "LIGO and Gravitational Waves III"Kip S. Thorne delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. |vrz| zer| pvp| ddi| nwb| efc| nnz| sua| ggf| irf| bxc| cpq| bmg| kzy| kxf| ohu| ntc| eri| qff| xim| gdi| poz| adp| vkl| hpa| qiv| pkp| ibk| thc| mnk| otc| rmb| wsj| dly| fcm| ttt| ldx| oky| jrp| jzi| rlf| ybu| ivi| wnn| dzm| hvm| xed| zhl| ngw| jct|