Michio Kaku
Theoretical Physicist, Author & Professor
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. As
the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), he continues Einstein’s search to unite
the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory that will summarize all the physical laws
of the universe.
The author of numerous international bestsellers, Dr. Kaku’s most recent book is Physics of the
Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100. Based on
interviews with over 300 of the world's top scientists, he presents revolutionary developments in
medicine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and
alter the course of civilization itself. Due out February 2014, his newest book, The Future of the Mind:
The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, will tackle the most fascinating
and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.
A regular commentator on Tech-TV, he was featured in the full-length 90-minute feature film
Me and Isaac Newton, which was nominated for an Emmy in 2001. Starting in 2008, he became a
regular host on the Science Channel/Discovery Channel, hosting their Sunday lineup of shows. He
also hosts his own national weekly radio program which airs in 130 cities in the US called "Science
Fantastic." It is the largest nationally syndicated science radio show on commercial radio in the United
States, and perhaps the world.
Dr. Michio Kaku frequently keynotes major business conferences for major corporations about
the next 20 years in computers, finance, banking, and commerce.
He holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York. He
graduated from Harvard University in 1968 summa cum laude and first in his physics class. He received
his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972 and has been a professor at
CUNY for almost 30 years. He has taught at Harvard and Princeton as well.
Dr. Kaku’s other books include Hyperspace and Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the
21st Century, for which he interviewed 150 of the world's top scientists, many of them Nobel laureates
and directors of the largest scientific laboratories, about their vision for the next 20 years in computers,
robotics, biotechnology, and space travel; Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher
Dimension, and the Future of the Cosmos, which was a finalist for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize
for Non-Fiction in the UK, as well as a finalist for the Aventis Science Book Award; Physics of the
Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time
Travel, which was on The New York Times Bestseller List for five weeks in 2008 and earned glowing
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reviews from The Los Angeles Times, New Scientist Magazine, and The Guardian and was the number
one science book in the US.
Dr. Kaku has appeared on Larry King Live, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America,
CNN, CNN-Financial, ABC-TV News, BBC-TV, BBC-Radio, PBS's Nova and Innovation, and Tech-TV. He
has
also
appeared
on
numerous
science
specials,
including
PBS's Stephen
Hawking's
Universe, Science Odyssey, and Einstein Revealed; the BBC's Future Fantastic, Parallel Universes,
and Copenhagen; Channel 4's The Big G: The Story of Gravity; the Discovery Channel; the Learning
Channel's Exodus Earth; and A & E; as well as many science documentaries.
He has also appeared in a series of major science specials. In 2006, he hosted a four-part,
four-hour series for BBC-TV and BBC World on the nature of time. In 2007, he hosted a three-part,
three-hour Discovery–TV series about the next 50 years, called 2057. He has also hosted a new threepart, three-hour documentary for BBC-TV about the future of science, called Visions of the Future. It
aired in the UK in the fall of 2007 and received glowing reviews from London newspapers, including
The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian. It also received some of the highest ratings for
BBC4.
In January 2009, the Science Channel announced that Dr. Kaku would host a 12-part series on
TV based on his New York Times bestseller Physics of the Impossible. The movie aired in fall 2009. He
has spoken on over 500 radio stations around the country.
He has written for Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Discover Magazine, New Scientist
Magazine, Astronomy Magazine, and Wired; and been quoted in Scientific American, The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The London Daily Telegraph, The London Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Wired, and Fast Company. He has written cover articles for New Scientist Magazine, Astronomy
Magazine, and the Sunday London Times. He has also written several op-ed pieces for The Wall Street
Journal and The Boston Globe.
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Physics of the Future
Who Knew Science & Physics Could Be So Fascinating?
Parallel Worlds
Reading the Mind of Gods: String Theories, Higher Dimensions & Einstein’s Quest for a
Theory for Everything
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