Pasadena: Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 8 p.m. at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.
Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most widely recognized figures in science in the world today. He is an internationally recognized authority in two areas. The first is Einstein’s unified field theory, which Dr. Kaku is attempting to complete. The other is to predict trends affecting business, commerce, and finance based on the latest research in science. He has written three NY Times Best Sellers. His latest, The Future of the Mind, hit #1 on the NY Times, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble Best Sellers List, making it the #1 hardcover, non-fiction book in the country. His Facebook page has 1.8 million fans, and over 240,000 people regularly receive his tweets.
Dr. Kaku was born in San Jose, California, to Japanese-American parents. Both his parents were interned in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center during World War II, where they met and where his brother was born. While attending Palo Alto Senior High School in California, Kaku assembled a particle accelerator in his parents’ garage for a science fair project. His admitted goal was to generate “a beam of gamma rays powerful enough to create antimatter.” At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in 1972, and that same year held a lectureship at Princeton University.
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