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Michio Kaku

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U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)

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Michio Kaku is a male theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurist, and university teacher who holds United States citizenship. Born in San Jose, California, in 1947, he has resided in New York City. He is employed by Princeton University, the City University of New York, and the City College of New York. His fields of work include physics and astronomy.

Kaku was educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under doctoral advisor Stanley Mandelstam. He served in the United States Army and is a member of the American Physical Society. He speaks English and Japanese. As an author, he has written 31 works, including *Quantum Supremacy*, *Parallel Worlds*, and *Strings, Conformal Fields, and Topology*.

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Works
31

Top works

  • Supremacía Cuántica : la Revolución Tecnológica Que lo Cambiará Todo / Quantum Su Premacy
  • Mundos Paralelos
  • Strings, Conformal Fields, and Topology
  • O Futuro da Mente
  • עולמות מקבילים

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San Jose, California, USA

Michio Kaku is an American physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular-science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Known for

  • The Alien Perspective2025
  • Doppelgängers³2024
  • The UnXplained: Mysteries of the Universe — Self - Theoretical Physicist2024
  • Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations — Self2023
  • To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb — Self - Theoretical Physicist2023
  • UFOs: Investigating the Unknown — Self - Theoretical Physicist2023
  • A Tear in the Sky2022
  • The Proof Is Out There: Bermuda Triangle Edition — Self - Dr. Theoretical Physics Professor2022
  • The Proof Is Out There — Self - Dr. Theoretical Physics Professor2021
  • Deeper Look from New York2020

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Physicist, Futurist, Bestselling Author, Popularizer of Science

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
San Jose
Employer
City College of New York
Languages spoken
Japanese
Doctoral advisor
Stanley Mandelstam
Student of
Stanley Mandelstam
Field of work
astronomy
Military branch
United States Army
Official website
mkaku.org
Image
Michio Kaku-cropped.jpg
Residence
New York City
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Michio Kaku
date of birth
1947-01-24
member of
American Physical Society
name in native language
Michio Kaku
social media followers
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web feed URL
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Encyclopedic overview

Michio Kaku (/ˈmiːtʃioʊ ˈkɑːkuː/; born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, science communicator, futurologist, and writer of popular science. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee.

His books Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), The Future of the Mind (2014), and The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (2021) became New York Times best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.

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