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Kip Thorne was born in 1940 in Logan, Utah, USA and is currently an Honorary Professor of Feynman Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology. From 1967 to 2009, he led a research group at the California Institute of Technology, specializing in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational physics, focusing on the study of relative stars, black holes, and especially gravitational waves. Under his guidance, 53 students obtained doctoral degrees. In addition, Thorn has supervised over 60 postdoctoral fellows. In 1973, he co authored a textbook on gravity with Charles Misner and John Archibald Wheeler. In 2017, he co authored modern classical physics with Roger Branford and was the only author of the book \Black Holes and Time Bending - Einstein's Ghost\. Thorn is a co founder of the LIGO: Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory project at the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory. The other two founders are Rainer Weiss and RWP Drever. With the efforts of the younger generation of physicists, LIGO achieved a breakthrough in September 2015, discovering gravitational waves that arrived at Earth from a distant universe. Thorne has been awarded various major awards such as the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his outstanding contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave research. In 2009, Thorne resigned as a professor at Caltech and began to open up a new world in the field of art and scientific research. The material for the movie 'Star Trek' comes from Thorn's co authored book 'Treatment', where Thorn served as the executive producer and scientific advisor. On October 3, 2017, American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their outstanding contributions to the direct detection of gravitational waves through the conception and design of the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory (LIGO). As an American theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne laid the theoretical foundation for gravitational wave detection, pioneered research directions in gravitational wave waveform calculation and data analysis, and made important contributions to LIGO instrument science, especially proposing a series of fundamental concepts in quantum metrology theory. Thorne, along with British physicist Professor Ronald Dreyff, and others, founded the LIGO\/VIRGO collaboration project. LIGO directly detected gravitational waves generated by the merger of two black holes on September 14, 2015, confirming Einstein's prediction made 100 years ago and filling the last missing puzzle in the experimental verification of general relativity. So far, LIGO has confirmed four gravitational wave signals.

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