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Biography
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
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Awards & recognition
- James Madison Medal · 2020
- Cocconi Prize · 2017
- honorary doctor of ETH Zürich · 2017
- honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia · 2017
- Nobel Prize in Physics · 2017
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- Princess of Asturias Award — Technical and Scientific Research · 2017
- Clarivate Citation Laureates · 2016
- Georges Lemaître Prize · 2016
- Gruber Prize in Cosmology · 2016
- Harvey Prize · 2016
- Kavli Prize in Astrophysics · 2016
- Shaw Prize · 2016
- The Shaw Prize in Astronomy · 2016
- Tomalla Foundation · 2016
- UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal · 2010
- Albert Einstein Medal · 2009
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal · 1996
- Lilienfeld Prize · 1996
- Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award · 1992
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- James Joyce Awards
- Science Writing Award
