• Kip S. Thorne, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus

California Scientist of the Year Recipients

  • †Norman Davidson, 1980
  • †William A. Fowler, 1958
  • Peter M. Goldreich, 1981
  • Harry B. Gray, 1988
  • †Jesse Greenstein, 1965
  • Lee Hood, 1985
  • John J. Hopfield, 1991
  • Hiroo Kanamori, 1993
  • †Andrew Lange, 2003
  • Gerry Neugebauer, 1986
  • Frank Press, 1961
  • Maarten Schmidt, 1965
  • Robert Sinsheimer, 1968
  • †Roger W. Sperry, 1971
  • Kip S. Thorne, 2005

† deceased

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