Michio Kaku Facts
Michio Kaku Facts
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| Interesting Michio Kaku Facts: |
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| Kaku was born in San Jose, California. |
| Although his father was also born in California, during World War II he was interned in the tule Lake War Relocation Center when he met and married his wife. |
| While in high school he built a particle accelerator for the National Science Fair. |
| Edward Teller was impressed with Kaku and awarded him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. |
| Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and received his PhD in physics in 1972 from the University of California, Berkeley. |
| He was drafted during the Vietnam War but the war ended shortly after he completed his basic training. |
| During 1975 to 1977 he did research on quantum mechanics at the City College of New York. |
| In 1990 he was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and New York University. |
| He has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals on superstring theory, supergravity and hadronic physics. |
| In 1974 he and Professor Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University published the first paper on string theory in a field form. |
| As an educator he is interested in popularizing science and has appeared on several science specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. |
| He has written several books for the general audience including, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension in 1994 and Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100. |
| In 2015 he appeared at a TED conference about transportation of the future. |
| In 2006 he created Science Fantastic which is the only nationally syndicated science program on radio. |
| He is a frequent guest on TV shows explaining the science behind popular movies. |
| He is outspoken on public policies issues affected by science such as the human causes of global warming, the use of nuclear power and the general misuse of science. |
| He is active in Peace Action which is a global anti-nuclear weapons movement. |
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