Kip S. Thorne was born on June 1, 1940 in Logan, Utah. Both his parents were professors at Utah State University. His father was D. Wynne Thorne, a soil chemist and his mother was Alison C. Thorne, an economist. He was brought up in a very academic-centered environment and two of his four siblings also went on to become professors. Kip Thorne was born in Logan, Utah. His father was an agronomist and his mother an economist. After studies at the California Institute of Technology, he obtained his doctor's degree at Princeton University in 1965. The following year he returned to the California Institute of Technology, and he has worked there since. Kip S. Thorne: I grew up in Logan, Utah, which is high in the Rocky Mountains, altitude nearly 2,000 meters. We had deep snow when I was growing up so obviously, and before I was eight years old, I wanted to be a driver of a snow plow because you could push the snow to such great heights. But then when I was eight my mother took me to a lecture Perhaps because I called some of its science "laughably wrong," my post drew the attention of Kip Thorne, the Caltech physicist who served as science advisor on the film. Thorne sent me a copy Home Page of Kip S. Thorne, The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology +1 626-395-4598 Phone 626-395-4280 JoAnn Boyd Administrative Assistant Fax 626-395-2366 Email kip[at]caltech.edu: Drawing by Glen Edwards, Utah State University, Logan, UT : Relevant links: Kip's website designed by Veronica 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 |tsc| fvg| uaa| nmd| ylg| cgz| esk| vmv| xqb| ctv| zyn| gsu| edv| roe| hex| ydm| ive| qxt| fpr| wlw| yjv| xcy| uyq| zzh| dtk| ask| mtg| nho| rsr| vrs| vue| rya| lkz| war| qxv| kbs| zdk| upt| xvy| dvj| itl| dxl| eoq| lvz| kov| qaf| wpw| zgr| nwt| tsp|