Show A10 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday August 18 2002 interest in the enigmatic subject of black holes — regions aUBODnt Kip Continued from A ill 1 reunion is a ritual that almost unfailingly brings him back to Cache Valley every year As tall in person as he is in stature a slight stoop notwithmasd standing the ter physicist appears modest of space with so much mass concentrated in them that nearby objects cannot escape their gravitational pull By the time he completed graduate study at Princeton from where he obtained his doctorate in 1963 at the young age of 25 Kip was already comparing notes with Nobel laureate and University of Chicago physicist Subramanyan Soviet collapse mm pony-taile- Orism Any reference to his lengthy resume makes him squirm and he brushes it off quickly with a reluctant smile In an extensive interview Kip discussed his road to fame speaking plainly and candidly about everything book to from his devout a once why although Mormon he now no longer believes in a god best-selli- Beginnings “This was a wonderful place Chan-drasek- ar “Chandra and I were very close friends” Kip reminisced “I first met him the summer after I got my doctorate when we were both lecturing at a summer school in northern Italy We had already exchanged correspondence because we were working on some of the same problems” The two hit it off almost immediately “After a year of postdoctoral study at Princeton my wife our daughter and dog drove west through Chicago and I spent a day with Chandra It was a wonderful day” he said “Chandra offered me myfirst professorship at Chicago but Cal Tech met the offer so I the wrong answer but your ' stayed at Cal Tech” arguments were good you A professor at age 30 Kip' could get a decent mark That wasn't very much older than sounded like a very good kind some of his students during of place” Kip explained his early career So while most of his peers “I’ve been close personally at Logan High School headed to many of my students hill State the Utah to Kip up I was not far from because packed his bags for what he I am now but for their age considered to be “the very I was really fairly sometime best place that I could find in he laughed young” the world" The professor was young “While Utah State then avid traveler As an an also chair with John Wood as the he had taken of the physics department had undergraduate Russian and French classes in a good strong program no and was conversant enough in place in the world was as both languages to “get along good as Cal Tech” he emphahappily” in both societies sized “In fact Cal Tech has However Russia was special 1 been ranked No for physics “I’ve spent a fair amount of graduate study or tied for in Prance but Prance time number one every year as far held a fascination for never as I’m aware since I was a that Russia has had” Kip me kid" said “I don’t think I underKip raced to the top of his stand French society” class earning his bachelor’s Russia on the other hand is He in 1962 didn’t degree stopped there While at Cal See THORNE on A12 Tech he had developed an (§20 'to grow up” Kip recalled seated in the Thome’s vast grassy backyard — the only quiet place in the house on that bustling morning “I just went walking with one of my sisters and nieces yesterday down along the steep hillside between the Fifth Ward up here and down in the Island where I used to play as a little boy I was talking about how here I was four or five or six and I’d just go oqt and play down there-Mparents didn't worry about me It was glorious to be able to just run around and have a good time and not have your " Kip loves winters or seems to at least He even admits to a childhood fantasy about wanting to command a snow plow for a living It was during the winter of 1948 “I was eight years old and we had the deepest snow that we'd had iq my eight-yelifetime" he laughed “The snow-plodriver I felt had such great power clearing the roads and climbing up the snow drifts that I thought I wanted to be one” y ar w parents worry” He has many fond memories of his early days in Logan while a student at the' Whittier School “Playing kickball — variants of kickball that we invented” he recalled going dowtig irieffltal list “Hiking in the wim$r time building snow caves upB lacks mi th Fork Canyon one winter when it was something like 20 below down in L6$an discovering without having been taught how good a snow cave was to keep you warm” ‘ faltered apparently searching for a name The older Thorne makes mention of her son's defining moment in a recently released book “Leave the Dishes in the Sink” The educator who had such a profound influence on Kip was William Peterson a geologist at Utah State at the time “He talked about the solar system” Kip continued “I was really young to go to this but she took me and I became enchanted with the solar sys- tem" Reaching for the stars ' Alison nurtured her son’s growing interest in the stars and talked him into taking up astronomy as a hobby “We began by trying to portray the planets in a manage- Snowplows didn’t hold young Kip’s fascination for long Another experience in the same year veered his interests toward more cerebral pursuits He remembers the day vaguely “My mother took me when I was eight years old to a talk “ by some professornamed can she tell Peterson Uh you which one it was" Kip able size on a long Stretch of shelf paper pinned across a wall of the kitchen” die writes describing her efforts to guide Kip’s early forays in the field The bug bit the budding scientist hard “I did astronomy as a hobby for a few years and then I reading paperback books about science” Kip recalled “I came across books by George Gamow who by then was a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder A great physicist he wrote wonderful books for the general public that got me fascinated with physics So I started finding my ownpro-ject- s related to physics from there and that’s sort of how I got into science” 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