Kip S. Thorne: Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data	Born June 1, 1940, Logan, Utah, USA, son of Professors D. Wynne Thorne and Alison C. Thorne Married Linda Jean Peterson, September 12, 1960; divorced July 1977 Children Kares Anne, Bret Carter Married Carolee Joyce Winstein, July 7, 1984
Present Position	The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics	California Institute of Technology	1991 - present
Previous Positions	Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics	Princeton University	1965 - 1966
	Research Fellow in Physics	California Institute of Technology	1966 - 1967
	Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics	California Institute of Technology	1967 - 1970
	Professor of Theoretical Physics	California Institute of Technology	1970 - 1991
	The William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor	California Institute of Technology	1981 - 1991
	Adjunct Professor of Physics	University of Utah	1971 - 1998
	Andrew D. White Professor at Large	Cornell University	1986 - 1992
Research Interests	Theoretical physics, gravitational physics, astrophysics
Education	B.S. (Physics)	California Institute of Technology	1962
	A.M. (Physics)	Princeton University	1963
	Ph.D. (Physics)	Princeton University	1965
	precollege education: Logan, Utah
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Elected Memberships	National Academy of Sciences, 1973 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 1972 Russian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member, 1999 American Philosophical Society, 1999 American Physical Society, Fellow, ca. 1971 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1976
Member	International Committee on General Relativity and Gravitation, 1971 - 80, 1992 - Committee on US-USSR Cooperation in Physics, 1978 - 79 Space Science Board, 1980 - 83 Advisory Board, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara,1978 - 80 Chairman of Steering Committee, Caltech/MIT Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO Project), 1984 - 1987 Society for Amateur Scientists, Advisory Board, 1994 - American Astronomical Society Governing Committee, Division of High Energy Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society, 1970 - 1972 Chair, Faculty Search Committee for the President of Caltech, 1996 - 97 Chair, Topical Group in Gravity, American Physical Society, 1997 - 98 International Astronomical Union Editorial Advisory Board of Astrophysical Letters, 1968 - 1974 Board of Editors of Journal of Mathematical Physics, 1969 - 71 Board of Correspondents of Comments on Astrophysics and Space Physics, 1969 - 1970 Tau Beta Pi Sigma Xi
Honorary Degrees	Honorary Doctor of Science, Illinois College, 1979 Doctoris Honoris Causa, Moscow University, 1981 Honorary Doctor of Science, Utah State University, 2000 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Glasgow, 2001 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Claremont Graduate University, 2002 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Chicago, 2008
Science Awards	Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society, 1996 Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Astronomische Gesellschaft (Astronomical Society of Germany), 1996 Robinson Prize in Cosmology, University of Newcastle, 2002 California Scientist of the Year, 2004 Common Wealth Award in Science, 2005
Science Writing Awards	American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in Physics and Astronomy, 1969 and 1994 Priroda (USSR) Readers' Choice Award for 1989 and 1990 Phi Beta Kappa Science Writing Award, 1994
Caltech Teaching Awards	Associated Students of the California Institute of Technology (undergraduates): 24th Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1999-2000 Graduate Student Council Mentoring Award, 2004			top
Scholarships, Fellowships, Temporary Appointments	General Motors National Scholar, 1958 - 1962 Honorary National Merit Scholar, 1958 - 1962 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1962 - 1963 Danforth Foundation Fellow, 1962 - 1965 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, 1964 - 1965 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1965 - 1966 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow in Physics, 1966 - 1968 Fulbright Lecturer in France, 1966 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, June 1967 - January 1968 Visiting Associate Professor of Physics, University of Chicago, January - June 1968 Visiting Professor, Moscow University (USSR), August and September 1969, September 1975, March 1978, September 1981, December 1982, April 1986, June 1990, April 1998 Visiting Lecturer for the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, September 1971 and September 1973 Visiting Senior Research Associate, Cornell University, January - June 1977 Member, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, 1981 - 1982 and Spring 1993 Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für GravitationsPhysik (Germany), April - June 1998
Lectureship Awards and Endowed Lectureships	John Danz Lecturer, University of Washington, 1981 Silliman Lecturer, Yale University, 1984 Carl Herzfeld Lecturer, Catholic University, 1985 Hans Bethe Lecturer, Cornell University, 1986 Sigma Xi Centennial Lecturer, 1986 Bart Bok Memorial Lecturer, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1987 Newton Tercentenary Lecturer, University of Alberta, 1987 Patton L. Seifert Memorial Lecturer, Montana State University, 1989 Gardiner Memorial Lecturer, New Mexico State University, 1989 Yunker Memorial Lecturer, Oregon State University, 1989 Hauser Memorial Lecturer, California Polytechnic University, 1990 Richtmeyer Memorial Lecturer, American Association of Physics Teachers, 1992 Leon Pape Memorial Lecturer, California State University at Los Angeles, 1994 O.C. Tanner Lecturer in the Humanities, Utah State University, 1994 Alphaeus W. Smith Lecturer, Ohio State University, 1995 P.A.M. Dirac Memorial Lecturer, University of Cambridge, 1995 Max Goodrich Memorial Lecturer, Louisiana State University, 1996 First Leibniz-Kolleg Lecturer, Potsdam, Germany, 1998 Konopinski Memorial Lecturer, Indiana University, 1998 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, 1999 George Darwin Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society, 2000 Arthur Holly Compton Memorial Lecturer, Washington University, 2001 Inaugural Herzberg Memorial Lecturer, Canadian Association of Physicists, 2001 Elston Memorial Lecture, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, 2002 Kibbe Lecture, Bowdoin College, 2002 Resnick Lecture, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 2005 Presidential Lecture, University of Tulsa, 2007 Ford Lecture, University of Michigan, 2007 Sacker Lecture, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, 2008
Summer-School Lectureships	Enrico Fermi School of Physics (Varenna, Italy), 1965 and 1968 Ecole d'Été de Physique Theorique (Les Houches, France), 1966, 1972, and 1982 University of Toronto, 1969 University of New York at Stony Brook, 1969 Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England, 1973 Ettore Majorana School of Physics (Erice, Italy), 1975 Battelle Workshop on Sources of Gravitational Radiation (Seattle), 1978 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravitation, and Measurement Theory (Baad Windsheim, Germany), 1981 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Gravitational Radiation (Les Houches, France), 1982 Winter School on Nonlinear Phenomena (ELAF-84, Santiago, Chile), 1984 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Gravitation in Astrophysics (Cargese, Corsica), 1986 SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (Stanford, California), 1994
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