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Michio Kaku is a single child born to Japanese parents of Tibetan ancestry, on January 24, 1947. His grandfather immigrated to the United States to help with the 1906 cleanup operation for the San Francisco Earthquake. Kaku’s dad, Toshio, worked as a gardener and his mom, Hideko, worked as a maid.

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Michio Kaku attended high school here, where he assembled his own particle accelerator in the garage of his home, claiming that his aim was to generate gamma ray beams with high enough energy to produce antimatter. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, he attended the National Science Fair and impressed Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, enabling him to win the Hertz Engineering Scholarship.

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After attending and winning the National Science Fair Michio Kaku earned the Hertz Engineering Scholarship, which helped him tremendously to get into Harvard University where he placed first in his physics class and he graduated from Harvard University in 1968.

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In Berkeley, at the University of California, he received his Ph.D. in 1972 after carrying out research at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.

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Michio Kaku is like a science preacher, in which his daughter, Michelle Kaku, states “recall her father, Michio Kaku, used the opportunity to explain intricate scientific concepts to his children.” These “opportunities” mentioned by his daughter are in relation to her childhood experiences.  Michio is like a person you’d hear about in a fictional story, or some sci-fi movie, in which his most notable moments to the public eye are centered around science, specifically physics. Every article I read about him there are only positive words spoken to the point where the writers of these web articles (though admitting to there being little to no information on his family and private life) continue to describe the intensely close bond between him and his wife, or even his great parenting. He seems like a genuine man who just really loves, and is good at, science. What makes Michio so interesting is his scientific approach to the ‘what ifs’ and ‘imagine’ of our existence in this universe. It is also worth noting the website Michio Kaku made that is all about him, and the title of the website is literally his name. It also has one of those very weird formats where the information and material of the website is in the middle, and the exterior of that material is this immovable galaxy background. It’s just odd to me. But he’s chill.

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The general field of science Kaku expertises in is theoretical physics, but within that field Kaku also expertises in string theory. Michio Kaku also is well known for being a futurologist. Michio Kaku explored Einstein’s work to create an equation that could summarize all physical laws of the universe, which is known as the Unified Field theory, and string theory is the current formulation of Einstein’s ongoing work. String field theory, a subset of string theory (who Kaku is the co-founder of), uses the mathematics of fields to explain string theory.

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String theory began in 1968 when Gabriele Veneziano, an Italian theoretical physicist, wrote a paper titled, “Construction of a crossing-symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly-rising trajectories' '. His paper wound up marking the beginning of string theory and earned him the title, "The father of String theory".

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Representation of particles according to string theory

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String theory is the idea that since gravity cannot be described nor placed into the standard model equation (which accounts for and describes how particles move) all particles must be shaped like strings that have tension and in turn can vibrate. This vibration varies depending on the type of particle and accounts for gravitons, aka; gravity, which the standard model equation does not.
Describing this to a younger person would go something like, "String theory is the idea that the tiny particles that make up everything in our world are actually shaped like and act as strings. They vibrate in different ways, and that vibration determines what type of particle they are."

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Other important scientists in this field

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Other important scientists in this field

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1.  Edward Witten

2. Alexander Polyakov

3. Albert Einstein

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Futurology first began in 1947 and Futurology is the study of current trends in order to forecast future developments to a specific matter that affects an entire society.
Describing this scientific field to a 10 year old what would go something like, "Futurology uses things that happen over and over now to understand what might happen in the future because of those things that happen over and over again.

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1.  Ray Kurzweil

2. Darla Jane Gilroy

3. Patrick Dixon

4. Dennis Meadows

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Michio Kaku did most of his work at the department of physics at the University of New York as part of the research program in 1975 and 1977, and worked on research on quantum mechanics. In 1972, he began lecturing at Princeton University.

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Hyperspace is one of many of Michio Kaku's cosmology books. In this book he details parallel Universes, time warps, and the 10th dimension (most likely backed by String theory).

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As Michio Kaku is married to Shizue Kaku, and as one web article put it, “he (Michio) had always chosen to keep his private life very personal and out of the media” so the occupation of Michio Kaku’s wife is never stated so I assume she is a housewife, and they are said to have a very close relationship. The two daughters of Michio Kaku and Shizue Kaku, Michelle Kaku and Alyson Kaku, inherited their fathers love and talent for science. Michelle Kaku is a neurologist in New York with her subspeciality being neuromuscular medicine, and her sister, Alyson Kaku, has limited public information available about her.

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Famous theoretical physicists Michio Kaku

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Being the co-founder of string field theory

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String field theory.

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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 is a 2011 by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, speculates about possible future technological development over the next 100 years.

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With this theory people who care can understand how our universe evolves at the quantum level, and when you fully understand the building blocks of anything you can then fully understand and even fully control what those building blocks have built. Michio Kaku is already dubbed with the title, ‘The Popularizer of Science’ due to his presence in different media and his skill in communicating complex theories in easier to understand language has made him an influential scientist. String field theory gives insight to the universe we live in, and poses various questions about our world that people love to think about.