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Michio Kaku
Birth at
24 January 1947
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Michio Kaku is an American scientist, a specialist in theoretical physics. Originally from California, his ancestors were Japanese immigrants. His grandfather moved to the United States to deal with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In the early sixties, Michio studied at the Kibberley High School, was the captain of the chess team.
As part of the national science fair in Albuquerque, the scientist interested physicist Edward Teller, who took him as a protégé and awarded him a scholarship from
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Michio Kaku is an American scientist, a specialist in theoretical physics.
Originally from California, his ancestors were Japanese immigrants. His grandfather moved to the United States to deal with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. In the early sixties, Michio studied at the Kibberley High School, was the captain of the chess team.
As part of the national science fair in Albuquerque, the scientist interested physicist Edward Teller, who took him as a protégé and awarded him a scholarship from the Hertz Foundation. Kaku graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1968. Then he decided to go to the radiation laboratory in Berkeley, where he managed to get a PhD in 1972.
In 1973, Michio began to lecture at Princeton University. During the Vietnam War, he completed basic training at Fort Benning as well as infantry training at Fort Lewis. The war was over before Kaku was at the front.
The scientist is married to Shizue Kaku, he has two daughters, and today Michio lives with his family in New York. The doctor teaches at City College in New York, where he has already worked for twenty-five years.
Michio Kaku is an active popularizer of theoretical physics, as well as advanced concepts related to the structure of the universe. He is the author of books, the purpose of which is mainly to try to convey difficult scientific theories to each reader in a language accessible to him: “Physics of the future”, “Introduction to the theory of superstrings”, “Physics of the impossible” and others.
Kaku quite often appeared on radio and television, starred in documentaries, in particular, was a presenter in the programs of Sci Fi Science and How the Universe works produced by the television channel Discovery.