Michio Kaku was born on January 24, 1947. He is an American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. Kaku was born in San Jose, California to Japanese immigrant parents.

Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-creator of string field theory, a branch of string theory. Michio continues Einstein's search for a "Theory of Everything," seeking to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe the strong force, the weak force, gravity and electromagnetism.

He has appeared on the Larry King Show, 60 Minutes, 20/20, Good Morning America, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and BBC World. He has done numerous interviews with PBS's Nova, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel.On January 28, 2007, Kaku hosted the Discovery Channel series 2057. This three-hour program discussed how medicine, the city, and energy will change over the next 50 years. In 2008, Kaku hosted the three-hour BBC-TV documentary Visions of the Future, on the future of computers, medicine, and quantum physics, and appeared in several episodes of the History Channel's Universe series.

He is also an internationally bestselling author, of the books "Hyperspace" and Parallel Worlds.