Michio Kaku
- First Name: Michio
- Last Name: Kaku
Michio Kaku was born on 24 of January 1947 in San Jose, California, he's parents being Japanese immigrants. When he was in high school he had entered in the school's chess team playing in the first board. When he was at the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, N.M. he was token as a protégé by physician Edward Teller gving him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. He graduated with excellent grades from Harvard University with a B.S degree in 1968.
Rise to Fame
Kaku is famous for his theories regarding string field theory. Kaku published many information about the string theory since 1969. The first paper he wroted was not actually made alone but in collaboration with Prof. K. Kikkawa. Many of the theories scientists now research in the string theory are based on Kaku's ideeas. He released many books and movies about physics in general. One of his last book to date bening Physics of the Impossible which in March 2008 entered New York Times Best-seller list. Kaku made also several doctoral textbooks about string theory and quantum field theory publishing 170 articles in journals about superstring theory, hadronic physics supergravity, and supersymmetry.
Kaku appeared in many television and radio shows including: Good Morning America, The Screen Savers, NBC News, Coast To Coast AM and many other shows.
Other activities and concerns
Kaku supports the discovery of space believing that humans will one day be a galactic civilisation. He was concerned about NASA's Cassini-Huygens probe due to the fact of it containing 72 pounds of plutonium stating that NASA risked the fact that the fuel could be released accidentally by the probe in the environment by a malfunction of th probe.
Kaku mentioned his concerns about things such as global warming, nuclear power and armament.. He was also part of a anti-nuclear weapons movement in the 1980's among with Dr. Helen Caldicott, Jonathan Schell, Peace Action.
