Michio Kaku
“spellbinding…He had the crowd mesmerized.”
“He electrified the audience with his glimpse into the next 20 years.”
“His visionary look into the next 20 years was the highlight of the conference.”
Scientist, visionary, author and broadcaster
Dr. Michio Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City Univ. of New York. He is a leading authority on the future and on Einstein’s unified theory. He graduated from Harvard University in 1968 (summa cum laude and 1st in his physics class). He received his Ph.D. in physics from the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley in 1972, and been a professor at NY for almost 30 years. His goal is the complete Einstein’s dream of a “theory of everything”.
He is the author of numerous works including two international best-sellers, 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. These are the scientists who are inventing the future in their laboratories. Visions is the most authoritative and most authentic understanding of the world of the future. His latest book, Parallel Worlds, was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in the U.K., and also a finalist for the prestigious Aventis Science Book Prize.
Dr. Kaku has appeared on the Larry King Show, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, CNN, CNN-Financial, ABC-TV News, BBC-TV, BBC-Radio, PBS’s Nova and Innovation, Tech-TV, and has appeared on numerous science specials, including PBS’s Steven Hawking’s Universe, Science Odyssey, and Einstein Revealed, the BBC’s Future Fantastic, Parallel Universes, Copenhagen, Channel 4’s The Big G: the story of gravity, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel’s Exodus Earth, A and 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.
Recently, he hosted a new, four-hour, four-part science documentary for BBC-World TV on the nature of Time. He will also host a three-part, three-hour documentary for Discovery Channel for 2007 on the next 50 years. The series Visions of the Future, also aired by the BBC (from Nov 07) concerns the future of the computer and telecommunications, the future of medicine and biotechnology, and then will explore nanotechnology and the future of quantum physics.
He also hosts his own national weekly science radio program which airs in 100 cities in the US and also the KU national satellite band and internet. Michio is a mesmerising speaker who conveys a contagious sense of the wonder of science and provokes his audiences into re-evaluating the world around them.