Kip Thorne (Nobel Prize 2017)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kip Thorne

• Does Kip Thorne smoke?: Not Known

• Does Kip Thorne drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Owing to the academic environment at his home, two of his four siblings ended up being professors.

• He is one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of General Theory of Relativity.

• Upon completing his doctorate, Kip went back to California Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 1967. He then became a professor of Theoretical Physics there in 1970, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in 1981, and Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1991.

• He was a colleague of Cosmologist, Stephen Hawking and former Astronomer, Carl Sagan.

• To pursue a career in movie making, he stepped down from his professorship in 2009. He then began working with Christopher Nolan on his first project, Interstellar.

• For his determining contributions to the observation of gravitational waves and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector, he, along with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.