Kip Thorne: Creating Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

Bolzano Lecture of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic May 15, 2019, Prague Kip S. Thorne: Feynman professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, the world‘s leading expert on Einstein‘s general theory of relativity and its astrophysical implications, the Nobel laureate – with R. Weiss and B. Barish – in 2017 for “decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves“ and the executive producer for the film Interstellar. - - - Abstract: Four hundred year