The Physics Nobel Prize winner of 2017, Kip Thorne, gave a unique lecture within the packed halls of the Eugenides Foundation, on Thursday, 23rd May, 2019, at 19:00, titled «Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: From the Big Bang to the Black Holes».

Professor Kip Thorne was in Athens for one day only, as a guest of the International Astronomical Union, the Hellenic Society for Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology, the Eugenides Foundation and the Publications Ropi, on the event of the publication of “The Science of Interstellar” in Greek.

Kip Thorne was prefaced by his former PhD student and associate professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Theoharis Apostolatos, and the discussion was co-ordinated by journalist-writer Elias Maglines.

Kip Thorne is a great American theoretical physicist, well known for his contribution to Gravity Physics and Astrophysics. He has been an old friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. He has been a professor on the Feynman seat for Theoretical Physics of the Technological Institute of California (Caltech) until 2009, and is one of the greatest specialists worldwide on the consequences of astrophysics on the Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics, in 2017 for his pioneer study on the Gravitational Waves and his contribution to the promotion of the construction of an experimental array that will be able to register any imperceptible space-time corruption caused by gravitational waves, along with R. Weiss and B. Barish.

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