Michio Kaku
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031403
Born on 24 January 1947 in San Jose, California, Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and futurist at the City College of New York. In high school he built a particle accelerator in his parents’ garage; that project, which he presented at a national science fair, caught the attention of Manhattan Project physicist Edward Teller. Kaku received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Kaku codeveloped string field theory, a branch of string theory, and has written textbooks on superstrings and quantum field theory . Many of Kaku’s books are geared toward the general public. In one of his most recent books, Physics of the Future , he applies the laws of physics to the current state of technology and predicts the advances that will take place by the year 2100. (Photo credit: Cristiano Sant’Anna, CC BY-SA 2.0 )
Date in History: 24 January 1947
