Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York, a futurist, and a communicator and popularizer of science. He has written several books about physics and related topics; he has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film; and he writes extensive online blogs and articles. He has written two New York Times Best Sellers, Physics of the Impossible (2008) and Physics of the Future (2011). Kaku has hosted several TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel. Kaku has appeared in many forms of media and on many programs and networks, including Good Morning America, The Screen Savers, Larry King Live, 60 Minutes, Imus In The Morning, Nightline, 20/20, Naked Science, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Al Jazeera English, Fox News Channel, The History Channel, Conan, The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, TLC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Colbert Report, The Art Bell Show and its successor, Coast To Coast AM, BBC World News America, The Covino & Rich Show, Head Rush, Late Show with David Letterman, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Kaku was interviewed for two PBS documentaries produced and directed by Rosemarie Reed, a former colleague of his at WBAI Radio, The Path to Nuclear Fission: The Story of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn[14] and Out from the Shadows: The Story of Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.[15] We Are the Guinea Pigs (1980) Borders (1989) Synthetic Pleasures (1995) Einstein Revealed (1996) Future Fantastic (1996) Stephen Hawking's Universe (1997) Bioperfection: Building a New Human Race (1998) Exodus Earth (1999) Me & Isaac Newton (1999) Space: The Final Junkyard (1999) Ghosts: Caught on Tape (2000) Big Questions (2001) Parallel Universes (2001) Horizon: "Time travel" (2003) Robo sapiens (2003) Brilliant Minds: Secret Of The Cosmos (2003) Nova: "The Elegant Universe" (2003) Hawking (2004) The Screen Savers (2004) Unscrewed with Martin Sargent (2004) Alien Planet (2005) ABC News "UFOs: Seeing Is Believing" (2005) HARDtalk Extra (2005) Last Days on Earth (2005) Obsessed & Scientific (2005) Horizon: "Einstein's Unfinished Symphony" (2005) Time (2006) 2057 (2007) The Universe (2007) Futurecar (2007) Attack of the Show! (2007) Visions of the Future (2008) Horizon: "The President's Guide to Science" (2008) Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008) Horizon: "Who's Afraid of a Big Black Hole" (2009--2010) Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible (2009--2010) Horizon: "What Happened Before the Big Bang?" (2010) GameTrailers TV With Geoff Keighley: "The Science of Games" (2010) How the Universe Works (2010) Seeing Black Holes (2010) Prophets of Science Fiction (2011) Through the Wormhole (2011) Horizon: "What Happened Before the Big Bang?" (2011) The Science of Doctor Who (2012) World War Z: (2013) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_kaku Image By Campus Party Brasil (Flickr: Michio Kaku) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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