Kip S. Thorne
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, California Institute of Technology
Election motivation
For decisive contributions to the advanced LIGO detector and for invention and development of techniques to control this noise of LIGO’s gravitational-wave detectors.
Field of research
Theoretical Physics
Born
1 June 1940, Logan, UT, USA
Main Honors
Fellow, American Physical Society(1971)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences(1972)
Member, National Academy of Sciences(1973)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science(1976)
Foreign member,Russian Academy of Sciences(1999)
Fellow, American Philosophical Society(1999)
Received the Shaw Prize in Astronomy(2016)
Fellow, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (2016)
Foreign member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Received the Nobel Prize in Physics(2017)
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences