Michio Kaku

Dr. Michio Kaku is an internationally recognized authority in Einstein's unified theory field; innovation; and "the future of the future"—exploring and predicting the science of tomorrow, from computing power and artificial intelligence to communication and genetics.

Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 1968 summa cum laude and first in his physics class. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1972, and been a professor at CUNY for almost 30 years. He has taught at Harvard and Princeton as well. His goal is to complete Einstein's dream of a "theory of everything," to derive an equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, which will summarize all the physical laws of the universe. He is the co-founder of string field theory, a major branch of string theory, which is the leading candidate today for the theory of everything.

He is the author of several international bestsellers, including Hyperspace and Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century. For Visions, he interviewed 150 of the world's top scientists, many of them Nobel Laureates and directors of the largest scientific laboratories, about their vision for the next 20 years in computers, robotics, biotechnology, space travel, etc. His book Parallel Worlds, about the latest in cosmology, was a finalist for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in the UK, and also a finalist for the Aventist science book award.

He is also the author of Physics of the Impossible, which was on The New York Times Bestseller List for five weeks in 2008, and earned glowing reviews from The Los Angeles Times, New Scientist Magazine, The Guardian (UK), and many, many more. It was also the number one science book in the US.

Dr. Kaku's newest book, Physics of the Future: How Science will Change Daily Life by 2100, is based on interviews with over 300 of the world's top scientists. In it, Dr. Kaku presents the revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of civilization itself.

Dr. Kaku also does considerable public speaking on international radio and TV. He has appeared on Larry King Live, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, CNN, CNN-Financial, ABC-TV News, BBC-TV, BBC-Radio, PBS's Nova and Innovation, Tech-TV, and numerous science specials, including PBS's Stephen Hawking's Universe, Science Odyssey, and Einstein Revealed; the BBC's Future Fantastic, Parallel Universes, and Copenhagen; Channel 4's The Big G: The Story of Gravity; the Discovery Channel; the Learning Channel's Exodus Earth; A & E; and many science documentaries.

He was featured in the full-length, 90-minute feature film Me and Isaac Newton, which was nominated for an Emmy in 2001. He was profiled in Tech-TV's Big Thinkers series and is a regular commentator on that cable network. He has spoken on over 500 radio stations around the country.

He has also appeared in a series of major science specials. In 2006, he hosted a four-part, four-hour series for BBC-TV and BBC World on the nature of time. In winter of 2007, he hosted a three-part, three-hour Discovery–TV series about the next 50 years, called 2057. He has also hosted a new three-part, three-hour documentary for BBC-TV about the future of science, called Visions of the Future. It aired in the UK in the fall of 2007, and received glowing reviews from the London newspapers, including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian. It also received some of the highest ratings for BBC4.

Starting in 2008, he became a regular host on the Science Channel/Discovery Channel, hosting their Sunday line-up of shows. In January 2009, the Science Channel announced that Dr. Kaku would host a 12-part series on TV based on his New York Times bestseller Physics of the Impossible. The movie aired in fall 2009.

Dr. Kaku hosts his own national weekly radio program which airs in 130 cities in the US and also the KU national satellite band and internet, called "Science Fantastic." It is the largest nationally syndicated science radio show on commercial radio in the United States, and perhaps the world.

He has written for Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Discover Magazine, New Scientist Magazine, Astronomy Magazine, and Wired magazine, and been quoted in Scientific American, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The London Daily Telegraph, The London Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wired, and Fast Company. He has written cover articles for New Scientist Magazine, Astronomy Magazine, and the Sunday London Times. He has also written several op-ed pieces for the Wall Street Journal, as well as the Boston Globe.

Dr. Kaku frequently keynotes major business conferences about the next 20 years in computers, finance, banking, and commerce. In particular, he has keynoted major conferences for major corporations, many of them controlling hundreds of billions of dollars in investments.