Kip Stephen Thorne1984
Thorne joins Rainer Weiss and Ronald Drever in founding the Caltech-MIT LIGO project, uniting theoretical and experimental programmes around kilometre-scale laser interferometers.
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Thorne joins Rainer Weiss and Ronald Drever in founding the Caltech-MIT LIGO project, uniting theoretical and experimental programmes around kilometre-scale laser interferometers.
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