1940 - Today
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and speaks of the astrophysical implications of the general theory of relativity. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kip Thorne has received more than 2,213,084 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Kip Thorne is the 104th most popular physicist (up from 114th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from United States (up from 506th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Physicist.
Kip Thorne is most famous for his work in general relativity, black holes, and gravitational waves.
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Among physicists, Kip Thorne ranks 104 out of 717. Before him are Walther Bothe, C. V. Raman, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Alfred Kastler, and Joseph von Fraunhofer. After him are Henry Moseley, George Gamow, Javier Solana, Victor Francis Hess, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, and J. Hans D. Jensen.
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 98
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 99
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 100
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 101
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 102
1787 - 1826
HPI: 67.64
Rank: 103
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 104
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 105
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 106
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 107
1883 - 1964
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 108
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 109
1907 - 1973
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 110
Among people born in 1940, Kip Thorne ranks 33. Before him are Abbas Kiarostami, Brian De Palma, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Patrick Stewart, Michel Temer, and John Hurt. After him are Joseph Brodsky, Terry Gilliam, Anna Karina, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Peter Fonda, and Dario Argento.
1940 - 2016
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 27
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 28
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 29
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 30
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 31
1940 - 2017
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 32
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 33
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 34
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 35
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 36
1940 - 2021
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 37
1940 - 2019
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 38
1940 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 39
Among people born in United States, Kip Thorne ranks 430 out of 18,182. Before him are Albert Fish (1870), William G. Morgan (1870), Caitlyn Jenner (1949), Mike Tyson (1966), Frank Abagnale (1948), and Willem Dafoe (1955). After him are Joe Frazier (1944), Jessica Lange (1949), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Katherine Johnson (1918), Kim Basinger (1953), and Robert Zemeckis (1952).
1870 - 1936
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 424
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 425
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 426
1966 - Present
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 427
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 428
1955 - Present
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 429
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 430
1944 - 2011
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 431
1949 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 432
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 433
1918 - 2020
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 434
1953 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 435
1952 - Present
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 436
Among physicists born in United States, Kip Thorne ranks 10. Before him are Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Clinton Davisson (1881), John Bardeen (1908), Arthur Compton (1892), and Joseph Henry (1797). After him are Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), and Robert Coleman Richardson (1937).
1905 - 1991
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 4
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 5
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 6
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 7
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 13
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 14
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 15
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 16