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Kip Stephen Thorne

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Kip Stephen Thorne
Full Name
of the recipient
Kip Stephen Thorne
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award2017
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withRainer Weiss (33.3%)
Barry Clark Barish (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award
for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
Affiliation
at the Time of Award
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Place of BirthLogan, UT, United States USA
Date of Birth1 June 1940
Age
at the time of Award
76 years
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