Michio Kaku (born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist specializing in and co founder of string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs and a best-selling author. Kaku was born in San Jose, California to Japanese immigrant parents, and attended and played first board on the chess team of Cubberly High School in Palo Alto in the early 1960s. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, N.M., he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a protégé, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship.

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