This morning Princeton University Press was thrilled to congratulate PUP author and celebrated physicist Kip Thorne on being a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2017. Dr. Thorne’s research has focused on Einstein’s general theory of relativity and astrophysics, with emphasis on relativistic stars, black holes, and especially gravitational waves. The latter observation, made in September 2015, validated a key prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Princeton University Press is honored to be the publisher of Dr. Thorne’s Modern Classical Physics, co-authored with Roger Blandford, and the new hardback edition of the renowned classic, Gravitation, co-authored with Charles Misner and the late John Wheeler, forthcoming this fall.
Over the years, we’ve published several Nobel winners, including:
- Einstein
- Richard Feynman (QED)
- P.W. Anderson (the classic and controversial Theory of Superconductivity in the High-Tc Cuprates)
- Paul Dirac (General Theory of Relativity)
- Werner Heisenberg (Encounters with Einstein)
Interested in learning more about physics yourself? We put together the ultimate Nobel reading list. Click the graphic for links to each book.
