Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology whose work on the theory of gravitational waves and how a detector would see them helped found the LIGO project alongside Rainer Weiss. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Field (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Field (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldSourced to the subject's own accountTheoretical physics, gravitational wave astronomy 1 Connections
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Starting in 1968, Kip Thorne initiated theoretical efforts on gravitational waves and their sources at Caltech, and was convinced that gravitational wave detection would eventually succeed.
- Invented: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
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