Guest Post -- Kip Thorne on Stephen Hawking

Cosmic Variance
By Sean Carroll
Feb 11, 2009 4:34 PMMay 21, 2019 10:18 AM

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Most physics fans out there have probably heard of Kip Thorne, author of Black Holes and Time Warps and some other books. If you polled physicists to find out who they thought had been the most influential American scientist doing research in general relativity over the past several decades, Thorne would win hands-down. (Here’s a recent interview in Discover.)

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