Michio Kaku

Birth Name:

Michio Kaku

Birth Place:

San Jose, California, United States

Profession

Writer

The publisher of numerous books, his first, Hyperspace, was named a top seller by The New York Times and earned a Samuel Johnson Prize nomination
Joined the Institute for Advanced Study as a member in 1990
After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard in 1968, he would go on to earn his Ph․D․ at Berkeley four years later
After sparking the interest of Edward Teller at a national science fair, he would become the physicist's protégé after being awarded the Hertz Engineering Scholarship
Once served as an adjunct professor at Princeton University and the City College of New York
Initially trained with the U․S․ Army during Vietnam, but the war ended prior to his deployment
Published one of the first research papers describing string theory

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