Kip Thorne

Full Name-

Kip Stephen Thorne 

Born-

 June 1, 1940

Famous For-

1. Contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.
2. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the FeynmanProfessor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009.
3. One of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
4. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.
5. Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017 along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".

Awards-

1. Lilienfeld Prize (1996)
2. Albert Einstein Medal (2009)
3. Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
4. Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016)
5. Shaw Prize (2016)
6. Kavli Prize (2016)
7. Harvey Prize (2016)
8. Princess of Asturias Award (2017)
9. Nobel Prize in Physics (2017)
10. Lewis Thomas Prize (2018)