Kip Thorne
American physicist and writer
Follow Kip Thorne on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| 2024 | Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge. |
| 2023 | Published 'The Warped Side of Our Universe', a book using poetry and illustrations to explain scientific concepts. |
| 2019 | Received the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement. |
| 2018 | Awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize. |
| 2017 | Received the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish. |
| 2017 | Awarded the Princess of Asturias Award jointly with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish. |
| 2016 | Selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the American world. |
| 2016 | Received multiple prestigious awards including the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Shaw Prize, Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Tomalla Prize, Georges Lemaître Prize, Harvey Prize, and Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award for Physical Sciences. |
| 2010 | Received the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal from UNESCO. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Kip Thorne, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.