37 Facts About Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss was born on May 27,1954 and is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University.

Lawrence Krauss founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.

An anti-theist, Lawrence Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture.

Lawrence Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing, and chaired the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors.

Lawrence Krauss retired as a professor at ASU in May 2019, at the end of the following academic year.

Lawrence Krauss currently serves as president of The Origins Project Foundation.

Krauss hosts The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss and publishes a blog titled Critical Mass.

Lawrence Krauss was born on May 27,1954, in New York City, but spent his childhood in Toronto.

Lawrence Krauss was raised in a household that was Jewish but not religious.

Lawrence Krauss received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics with first-class honours at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1977, and was awarded a Ph.

Lawrence Krauss left Yale for Case Western Reserve University in 1993 when he was named the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy, and chairman of the physics department until 2005.

In 2006, Krauss led the initiative for the no-confidence vote against Case Western Reserve University's president Edward M Hundert and provost John L Anderson by the College of Arts and Sciences faculty.

Lawrence Krauss became the director of the Origins Project, a university initiative "created to explore humankind's most fundamental questions about our origins".

Lawrence Krauss appears in the media both at home and abroad to facilitate public outreach in science.

Lawrence Krauss has written editorials for The New York Times.

Lawrence Krauss attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposia in November 2006 and October 2008.

Lawrence Krauss served on the science policy committee for Barack Obama's first presidential campaign and, in 2008, was named co-president of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Lawrence Krauss is a critic of string theory, which he discusses in his 2005 book Hiding in the Mirror.

Lawrence Krauss wrote a longer piece in The New York Times explaining the science behind and significance of the particle.

In January 2019, Lawrence Krauss became President of the Origins Project Foundation, a non-profit corporation intended to host public panel discussions on science, culture, and social issues.

On June 21,2019, a new video podcast, The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss, launched with Krauss as host.

In 2024, Lawrence Krauss edited the book The War on Science, a collection of essays from 39 prominent scholars addressing threats to academic freedom and scientific progress.

Lawrence Krauss has formulated a model in which the Universe could have potentially come from "nothing", as outlined in his 2012 book A Universe from Nothing.

Lawrence Krauss explains that certain arrangements of relativistic quantum fields might explain the existence of the Universe as we know it while disclaiming that he "has no idea if the notion [of taking quantum mechanics for granted] can be usefully dispensed with".

Lawrence Krauss's model has been criticized by cosmologist and theologian George Ellis, who said it "is not tested science" but "philosophical speculation".

Lawrence Krauss has argued that public policy debates in the United States should have a greater focus on science.

Lawrence Krauss criticized Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's statements on science, writing that Carson's remarks "suggest he never learned or chooses to ignore basic, well-tested scientific concepts".

Lawrence Krauss has described himself as an antitheist and takes part in public debates on religion.

Lawrence Krauss is featured in the 2013 documentary The Unbelievers, in which he and Richard Dawkins travel across the globe speaking publicly about the importance of science and reason as opposed to religion and superstition.

Lawrence Krauss has participated in many debates with religious apologists, including William Lane Craig and John Lennox.

Lawrence Krauss has since argued in a debate with John Ellis and Don Cupitt that the laws of physics allow for the Universe to be created from nothing.

Later, while Lawrence Krauss was the director of the Origins Project, it received $250,000 from an Epstein foundation called "Enhanced Education".

Lawrence Krauss defended Epstein after his 2008 guilty plea of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18.

Harvard Professor Steven Pinker said that Lawrence Krauss was one of several colleagues who invited him to "salons and coffee klatsches" that included Epstein.

Lawrence Krauss responded that the article was "slanderous" and "factually incorrect".

Lawrence Krauss resigned from the position of chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors when informed that its other members felt his presence was distracting "from the ability of the Bulletin to effectively carry out [its] work".

Lawrence Krauss has authored or co-authored more than three hundred scientific studies and review articles on cosmology and theoretical physics.