1. Michio Kaku is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science.
24 Facts About Michio Kaku
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Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Michio Kaku is a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets.
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Michio Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.
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Michio Kaku was fascinated to learn that Einstein had been unable to complete his unified field theory and resolved to dedicate his life to solving this theory.
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Michio Kaku attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a PhD and holding a lectureship at Princeton University in 1972.
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In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Michio Kaku, who was about to be drafted, joined the United States Army, remaining until 1970.
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Michio Kaku completed his basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and advanced infantry training at Fort Lewis, Washington.
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Michio Kaku was a Visitor and Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and New York University.
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Between 1970 and 2000, Michio Kaku had papers published in physics journals covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics.
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Michio Kaku is the author of several textbooks on string theory and quantum field theory.
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Michio Kaku is most widely known as a popularizer of science and physics outreach specialist.
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Michio Kaku has written books and appeared on many television programs as well as film.
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Michio Kaku is the host of the weekly one-hour radio program Exploration, produced by the Pacifica Foundation's WBAI in New York.
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Michio Kaku defines the show as dealing with the general topics of science, war, peace, and the environment.
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When Michio Kaku is busy filming for television, Science Fantastic goes on hiatus, sometimes for several months.
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In February 2006, Michio Kaku appeared as presenter in the BBC-TV four-part documentary Time which discussed the nature of time.
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On January 28,2007, Michio Kaku hosted the Discovery Channel series 2057.
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In 2008, Michio Kaku hosted the three-hour BBC-TV documentary Visions of the Future, on the future of computers, medicine, and quantum physics, and he appeared in several episodes of the History Channel's Universe and Ancient Aliens series.
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Michio Kaku considers climate change and terrorism as serious threats in human evolution from a Type 0 civilization to Type 1 on the Kardashev scale.
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Michio Kaku has publicly stated his concerns over matters including people denying the anthropogenic cause of global warming, nuclear armament, nuclear power, and what he believes to be the general misuse of science.
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Conscious of the possibility of casualties if the probe's fuel were dispersed into the environment during a malfunction and crash as the probe was making a "sling-shot" maneuver around Earth, Michio Kaku publicly criticized NASA's risk assessment.
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Michio Kaku has spoken on the dangers of space junk and called for more and better monitoring.
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Michio Kaku was a board member of Peace Action and of radio station WBAI-FM in New York City, where he originated his long-running program, Exploration, that focuses on the issues of science, war, peace, and the environment.