Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku ( Japanese 加 來 道 雄 , Kaku Michio ; born January 24, 1947 in San José , California ) is one of the most famous physicists in the United States . His research area is theoretical physics , more precisely string theory . He is mainly known for his popular scientific contributions on theoretical and physical topics.
Life
Kaku grew up as the son of Japanese immigrants in Palo Alto . His passion for science arose when he was building a particle accelerator for a science project in his parents' garage in high school. He studied physics at Harvard University (on a scholarship given by Edward Teller , who met him at a science class for high school students). In 1968 he obtained his bachelor's degree there summa cum laude . He then went to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his doctorate in 1972 . In 1973 he was a lecturer at Princeton University , but then had to do his military service (but he was no longer used in Vietnam ). He then went to the City College of New York , where he is now a professor (Henry Semat Professor). At the same time he is a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . He was visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study and at New York University .
Kaku has been working on string theory since the 1970s, where, among other things, he developed a quantum field theory of strings (string field theory ) - to this day, however, no theory has been established in this area.
He has published numerous popular science books, some of which have also appeared in German.
Despite his association with Edward Teller , he has been critical of nuclear weapons since his student days at Berkeley and was part of an anti-nuclear weapons and peace movement with other activists such as Jonathan Schell in the 1980s . He followed this on his popular science radio show Explorations on WBAI-FM in New York.
He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1980 .
Video and filmography
Michio Kaku has appeared in a wide variety of documentaries. These are listed in the following list.
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- with Jennifer Trainer: Nuclear Power: Both Sides - The Best Arguments for and Against the Most Controversial Technology . WW Norton, 1982, ISBN 0-393-01631-5
- with Daniel Axelrod : To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans. South End Press, 1987, ISBN 0-89608-321-7
- Introduction to superstrings and M-theory. 2nd edition, Springer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-540-98589-1
- Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction . 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-19-507652-4
- with Jennifer Trainer: Beyond Einstein: The Search for the Theory of the Universe ( Beyond Einstein ). Insel, Frankfurt am Main, 1996, ISBN 3-458-33491-2
- In hyperspace: a journey through time tunnels and parallel universes. ( Hyperspace , 1994), Rowohlt Tb., Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-60360-8
- The physics of the invisible dimensions (a journey through time tunnels and parallel universes) . 1998: rororo-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-499-61509-2
- Visions of the future: how science and technology will revolutionize our lives in the 21st century. ( Visions , 1999), Droemer Knaur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-77468-2
- Strings, conformal fields, and M-theory: an introduction. 2nd ed., Springer, New York 2000, ISBN 0-387-98892-0
- In the parallel universe . Rowohlt Tb., Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-61948-2 (Original title: Parallel worlds (2004) .).
- Physics of the Impossible ( Physics of the Impossible , 2008). Rowohlt Tb., Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-498-03540-2
- Einstein's Cube or the Revolution of Space and Time . Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-04824-8 (Original title: Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time - Orion, 2004. ISBN 0-297-84755-4 - . Translated by Inge Leipold).
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Physics of the Future. How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives . Penguin, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-141-93139-5 .
- German by Monika Niehaus : The physics of the future. Our life in 100 years . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-03559-4 .
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The Future of the Mind . The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind. New York: Doubleday. 2014, ISBN 978-0-385-53082-8 .
- The Physics of Consciousness: On the Future of the Mind ( The Future of the Mind , 2014). ISBN 978-3-498-03569-3
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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond . Allen Lane, London 2018, ISBN 978-0-241-30484-6 .
- German by Monika Niehaus and Bernd Schuh: Farewell to the earth: The future of humanity . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-498-03578-5 .
Web links
- Michio Kaku in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Michio Kaku in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview by Tahir Chaudhry: "It makes me happy to discover a law of nature" . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 15, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on February 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Filmography: Michio Kaku. IMDb, accessed on August 28, 2013 .
- ↑ The need for clones is limited in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 27, 2012, page 14
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| SURNAME | Kaku, Michio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 加 來 道 雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palo Alto , California |