Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science (science communicator). He is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and frequently appears on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. He is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee for his efforts to bridge science and science fiction.

His books Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), The Future of the Mind (2014), and The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (2021) became New York Times best sellers. Kaku has hosted several television specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.

As part of the research program in 1975 and 1977 at the department of physics at the City College of the City University of New York, Kaku worked on research on quantum mechanics. He was a Visitor and Member (1973 and 1990) at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and New York University. As of 2014, he holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York.

Between 1970 and 2000, Kaku had papers published in physics journals covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. In 1974, Kaku and Prof. Keiji Kikkawa of Osaka University co-authored the first papers describing string theory in a field form. Kaku is the author of several string and quantum field theory textbooks. Kaku and Keiji Kikkawa explicitly described the second quantization of the light-cone string.