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With the award, Thorne became the second person from Logan to win the Nobel Prize. The first was Lars Hansen, who was the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics.

“I feel, in my case, the Nobel Prize is a little out of place, because it was the whole team that should have gotten it,” Thorne said.

The Logan High alumnus recently returned to Cache Valley for his 60th high school reunion. To kick off the reunion, Thorne presented a lecture titled “My Journey Through Space and Time: The Big Bang Theory, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves.”