What is Kip Thorne?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Kip Thorne |image = Kip Thorne at Caltech.jpg |caption=Thorne in August 2007 |birth_name = Kip Stephen Thorne |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|6|1}} |birth_place = [[Logan, Utah]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |education = [[California Institute of Technology]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])}}<br>[[Princeton University]] {{small|([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])}} |known_for = [[Thorne–Żytkow object|Thorne-Żytkow object]]<br>[[Roman ring|Roman arch]]<br>[[Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet|Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet]] |awards = [[Lilienfeld Prize]] {{small|(1996)}}<br>[[Albert Einstein Medal]] {{small|(2009)}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.einstein-bern.ch/index.php?lang=en&show=medaille |title=einstein medal |publisher=Einstein-bern.ch |access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref><br>[[Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics|Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics]] {{small|(2016)}}<br>[[Gruber Prize in Cosmology]] {{small|(2016)}}<br>[[Shaw Prize]] {{small|(2016)}}<br>[[Kavli Prize]] {{small|(2016)}}<br>[[Harvey Prize]] {{small|(2016)}}<br>[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(2017)}} |field = [[Astrophysics]]<br>[[Gravitational physics]] |workplaces = [[California Institute of Technology]] |doctoral_advisor = [[John Archibald Wheeler]] |doctoral_students = [[William L. Burke]]<ref name=Gene>{{cite web |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=63787 |title=Kip Stephen Thorne |website=Mathematics Geneaogy Project |publisher=North Dakota State University |access-date=6 Sep 2016 }}</ref><br>[[Carlton M. Caves]]<br>[[Lee Samuel Finn]]<br>[[Sándor J. Kovács]]<br>[[David L. Lee]]<br>[[Alan Lightman]]<br>[[Don Page (physicist)|Don N. Page]]<br>[[William H. Press]]<br>[[Richard H. Price]]<br>[[Bernard F. Schutz]]<br>[[Saul Teukolsky]]<br>[[Clifford Martin Will]] }} {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Kip Stephen Thorne''' (born June&nbsp;1, 1940)