- Kip Thorne won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2017 along with two other professors. The scientists discovered proof of gravitational waves.
- Kip S. Thorne is an internationally famed physicist who works in the fields of theoretical physics, gravitational physics, and astrophysics.
- Became a full tenured professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1970, and holds the position of Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech (1991 - present).
- Holds the degrees of B.S. in Physics from California Institute of Technology (1962); A.M. in Physics from Princeton (1963); and Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton (1965).
- With his first wife has two children: Kares Anne and Bret Carter Thorne.
- Son of Professors D. Wynne Thorne and Alison C. Thorne.
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