Kip Thorne - Age, Wiki and Bio

Physical Stats & More

Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Gemini
Hometown	Logan
School	Not Known
College/University	California Institute of Technology, California, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Marital Status

Wife

Children

Son	Bret Carter
Daughters	Kares Anne

Father	D. Wynne Thorne (Professor, Argonomist)
Mother	Alison Thorne (Professor, Economist)
Siblings	4
Religion	Atheism

Awards/Achievements	1967: Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada 1992: Richtmyer Memorial Award 1994: Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science 1996: Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Lilienfeld Prize 2009: Albert Einstein Medal 2010: Niels Bohr International Gold Medal 2016: Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, The Shaw Prize, Harvey Prize, Kavli Prize 2017: Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research, Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, Nobel Prize in Physics
Lesser Known Facts	Does Kip Thorne smoke?: Not Known Does Kip Thorne drink alcohol?: Not Known Two of his four siblings ended up being professors due to the academic environment at home. Expert on the astrophysical implications of General Theory of Relativity Worked closely with Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan Collaborated with Christopher Nolan on the movie Interstellar Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for contributions to gravitational wave observations and LIGO

Awards/Achievements

1967: Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
1992: Richtmyer Memorial Award
1994: Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
1996: Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Lilienfeld Prize
2009: Albert Einstein Medal
2010: Niels Bohr International Gold Medal
2016: Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, The Shaw Prize, Harvey Prize, Kavli Prize
2017: Princess of Asturias Award for Technical & Scientific Research, Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, Nobel Prize in Physics

Lesser Known Facts

Does Kip Thorne smoke?: Not Known
Does Kip Thorne drink alcohol?: Not Known
Two of his four siblings ended up being professors due to the academic environment at home.
Expert on the astrophysical implications of General Theory of Relativity
Worked closely with Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan
Collaborated with Christopher Nolan on the movie Interstellar
Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for contributions to gravitational wave observations and LIGO