About
Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein’s quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified theory of everything.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Kaku’s newest book, THE FUTURE OF THE MIND was released on February 25, 2014 and is now available. To see more, click here.
Dr. Kaku is the author of numerous New York Times Bestselling Books:
- The Future of the Mind – 2014
- Physics of the Future – 2011
- Physics of the Impossible – 2008
- Parallel Worlds – 2006
- Einstein’s Cosmos – 2005
- Visions – 1999
- Beyond Einstein – 1995
- Hyperspace – 1994
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MEDIA FIGURE AND POPULARIZER OF SCIENCE
Kaku has starred in a myriad of science programming for television including Discovery, Science Channel, BBC, ABC, and History Channel. Beyond his numerous bestselling books, he has also been a featured columnist for top popular science publications such as Popular Mechanics, Discover, COSMOS, WIRED, New Scientist, Newsweek, and many others. Dr. Kaku was also one of the subjects of the award-winning documentary, ME & ISAAC NEWTON by Michael Apted.
He is a news contributor to CBS:This Morning and is a regular guest on news programs around the world including CBS, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, RT. He has also made guest appearances on all major talk shows including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan on TBS, and others.
BBC Series: Time — Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time.
BBC Four series: Visions of the Future — 3 part series exploring the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond.
History Channel’s The Universe — Interviews with the world’s leading physicists and historians are woven together with animated recreations and first-person accounts to explain concepts such as the formation of galaxies, the creation of elements and the formation of Earth itself.
COSMOS Magazine — He stretches his mind to 11 dimensions, understands what Einstein failed to grasp, and he plans for the death of our Sun, five billion years from now. Michio Kaku is a superhero of the incomprehensible.
RADIO ON-AIR PERSONALITY
Michio Kaku hosts two weekly radio programs heard on stations around the country and podcast around the world.
Science Fantastic — a live science radio talk show which airs every Saturday.
Explorations in Science — airing every first, third, and fifth Fridays of each month and podcast every Tuesday.
For the full details of Dr. Kaku’s radio shows, visit Dr. Kaku’s Radio Page.
ACADEMIA
Theoretical Physicist — Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-creator of string field theory, a branch of string theory. He received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1968 where he came first in his physics class. He went on to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972. In 1973, he held a lectureship at Princeton University.
Michio continues Einstein’s search for a “Theory of Everything,” seeking to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe—the strong force, the weak force, gravity and electromagnetism.
He is the author of several scholarly, Ph.D. level textbooks and has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals, covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics.
Professor of Physics — He holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as well as New York University (NYU).
