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Kip S. Thorne

California Institute of Technology

202

Works

27,698

Citations

66

h-index

106

i10-index

Research Topics

Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Relativity and Gravitational Theory

Affiliations

Northwestern University1993–1993

California Institute of Technology1968–2025

Pennsylvania State University2000–2000

Los Alamos National Laboratory1985–1985

University of California, Santa Barbara1983–1985

Top Works

Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity

Michael S. Morris,Kip S. Thorne

19882,802 citations

Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

Alex Abramovici,W. E. Althouse,et al.

19922,196 citations

Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition

Michael S. Morris,Kip S. Thorne,et al.

19881,743 citations

Multipole expansions of gravitational radiation

19801,547 citations

On the measurement of a weak classical force coupled to a quantum-mechanical oscillator. I. Issues of principle

Carlton M. Caves,Kip S. Thorne,et al.

19801,224 citations

Disk-Accretion onto a Black Hole. II. Evolution of the Hole

19741,163 citations

Black holes: The membrane paradigm

Kip S. Thorne,Richard H. Price,et al.

2010996 citations

Quantum measurement

V. B. Braginsky,F. Y. Khalili,et al.

1992838 citations

Disk-Accretion onto a Black Hole. Time-Averaged Structure of Accretion Disk

Don N. Page,Kip S. Thorne

1974835 citations