Cientifico japones michio kaku biography

Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, author, and popularizer of science. He was born on January 24, 1947 in San Jose, California to parents of Japanese ancestry. His grandfather came to the United States to participate in the clean-up effort after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

His father was born in California but was educated in Japan and spoke very little English. During World War II, both of Michio's parents were placed in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in Modoc County, California. They met while staying at the center.

When Michio was growing up, he loved science fiction as well as books and movies that dealt with time travel and parallel universes.

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He said that magic, fantasy, and science fiction were all a gigantic playground for his imagination. For him, it all began a lifelong love of the impossible. He was eight years old when Albert Einstein died before he could complete his "Grand Theory of Everything".

This inspired Michio to learn more