Kip S. Thorne

Nobel Prize lecture

LIGO and Gravitational Waves III

Kip S. Thorne delivered his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2017 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Nils Mårtensson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

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