Sull'Autore
Michio Kaku was born January 24, 1947 in San Jose California. Kaku attended Cubberley High School in Palo Alto in the early 1960s and played first board on their chess team. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku mostra altro as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a B.S. degree 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 held a lectureship at Princeton University in 1973. During the Vietnam War, Kaku completed his U.S. Army basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia and his advanced infantry training at Fort Lewis, Washington. Kaku currently holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics and a joint appointment at City College of New York, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has lectured for more than 30 years. He is engaged in defining the "Theory of Everything", which seeks to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe: the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, gravity and electromagnetism. He was a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and New York University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and American Men and Women of Science. He has published research articles on string theory from 1969 to 2000. In 1974, along with Prof. K. Kikkawa, he wrote the first paper on string field theory, now a major branch of string theory, which summarizes each of the five string theories into a single equation. In addition to his work on string field theory, he also authored some of the first papers on multi-loop amplitudes in string theory. Kaku is the author of several doctoral textbooks on string theory and quantum field theory and has published 170 articles in journals covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. He is also author of the popular science books: Visions, Hyperspace, Einstein's Cosmos, Parallel Worlds, The Future of the Mind, and The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Michio Kaku giving a talk at Campus Party Brasil on February 11th 2012 Foto: Cristiano Sant´Anna/indicefoto.com for campuspartybrasil
Opere di Michio Kaku
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (1994) 2,871 copie
Fisica dell'impossibile: un'esplorazione scientifica nel mondo dei phaser, dei campi di forza, del teletrasporto e dei… (2008) 2,507 copie
Mondi paralleli. Un viaggio attraverso la creazione, le dimensioni superiori e il futuro del cosmo (2004) 1,818 copie
Fisica del futuro: come la scienza cambierà il destino dell'umanità e la nostra vita quotidiana… (2011) 1,467 copie
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (2014) 980 copie
Il futuro dell'umanità. Dalla vita su Marte all'immortalità, così la scienza cambia il nostro destino (2018) 627 copie
Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time (2004) 486 copie
Nuclear Power: Both Sides: The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology (1901) — A cura di — 22 copie
Quarks, symmetries and strings : a symposium in honor of Bunji Sakita's 60th birthday (1991) 2 copie
Quantum Supremacy 1 copia
Opere correlate
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Collaboratore — 98 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Kaku, Michio
- Altri nomi
- 加來 道雄
Kaku Michio - Data di nascita
- 1947-01-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- San Jose, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University (BS|physics|1968)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|1972)
Cubberley High School - Attività lavorative
- physicist
television host
professor
science writer
futurist - Relazioni
- Mandelstam, Stanley (doctoral advisor)
- Organizzazioni
- US Army
City College of New York
City University of New York
Institute for Advanced Study
New York University
American Physical Society (mostra tutto 10)
Peace Action
WBAI
Science Channel
Princeton University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellow, American Physical Society (1980)
Klopsteg Memorial Award (2008)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 13,142
- Popolarità
- #1,775
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 208
- ISBN
- 314
- Lingue
- 24
- Preferito da
- 29
La data originale di pubblicazione di questo libro è il 2003: sappiate dunque che non potrete trovare le "ultime notizie" sulla cosmologia, come per esempio la rilevazione di onde gravitazionali. (Non che mi pare ci sia stato molto altro: occhei, il bosone di Higgs, ma Kaku lo dava già praticamente per scontato). Kaku è siouramente innamorato della sua materia, e lo si vede quando racconta le cose. La prima parte del libro è ottima per avere uno sguardo globale sulle varie facce della cosmologia. Poi però nella seconda parte comincia a esagerare con la teoria - anzi LE teorie - delle stringhe, che per fortuna hanno perso l'appeal che avevano al tempo. La terza parte sugli universi paralleli è proprio a livello di romanzetto di fantascienza, e si può tranquillamente saltare. Non aspettatevi insomma troppo.
Qualche caduta nella traduzione di Andrea Migliori, con un "piuttosto" alla milanese e le decades che diventano secoli.… (altro)