Kip Thorne: Creating Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Bolzano Lecture of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic May 15, 2019, Prague Kip S. Thorne: Feynman professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, the worlds leading expert on Einsteins general theory of relativity and its astrophysical implications, the Nobel laureate with R. Weiss and B. Barish in 2017 for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves and the executive producer for the film Interstellar. Abstract: Four hundred year