31K views · 510 shares | JOIN US IN CONGRATULATING KIP S. THORNE! Kip S. Thorne has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 together with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish ”for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”. Write your congratulations here! LIGO Scientific Collaboration California Institute of Technology - Caltech | Nobel Prize | Facebook

24K views · 1.1K reactions | “I wanted to be the driver of a snow plough!” 2017 Physics Laureate Kip Thorne reveals how his childhood ambitions have led him to where he is today. Thorne and a collaboration of 1,000 physicists observed gravitational waves for the very first time. What did you want to be when growing up? | Nobel Prize | Facebook