Lawrence M. Krauss

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Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and former Chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek.

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[edit] Biography

Krauss was born in New York City and shortly afterward moved to Toronto, spending his childhood in Canada. He received undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. He became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1985. He was named the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and was Chairman of the Department of Physics at Case Western Reserve University from 1993 to 2005. In August 2008 he will join the faculty at Arizona State University as professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

He also regularly appears in national media for public outreach in science and has written many editorials for The New York Times. He is most famous for his advocacy against intelligent design as a result of his involvement on the issue with the state school board of Ohio. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, an organization dedicated to opposing the religious right, and Scientists and Engineers for America, an organization focused on promoting sound science in American government.

Krauss is one of the only living scientists that Scientific American has referred to as a 'public intellectual', and is the only physicist ever to have been awarded the highest awards of all three major US Physics Societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. Krauss is also a critic of string theory, which he takes on in his 2005 book, Hiding in the Mirror.[1]

He attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposium in November 2006.

[edit] Publications

A more complete list of publications can be found here

[edit] Awards

  • Gravity Research Foundation First prize award (1984)
  • Presidential Investigator Award (1986)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science's Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology (2000)
  • Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (2001)
  • Andrew Gemant Award (2001)
  • American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award (2002)
  • Oersted Medal (2003)
  • American Physical Society Joseph P. Burton Forum Award (2005)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Boutin, Paul (2005-11-23). Theory of Anything? Physicist Lawrence Krauss turns on his own. Slate. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.

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