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...1980s, though, when Witten turned his attention to superstrings, he was widely regarded as the most gifted physicist in the world, and perhaps the most brilliant who has ever lived. And simply by choosing to work in the field, he utterly transformed it. Says Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at New York University: "I remember fondly that back in the '70s, superstring theory was like a cottage industry. Only a handful of us diehards worked on it. But when Ed Witten declared that the theory would dominate the next 50 years of physics, it was like a tidal wave...
...have a mission in life: to stop the Star Wars program, nuclear weapons and energy, and help preserve the environment," wrote kaku...
...Kaku speaks out against nuclear testing as a member of the National Advisory Board of National SANF/Freeze, the largest disarmament organization...
...There was no attempt to explain the social inequality in this country and in the world," Kaku says. "Hopefully, Harvard has become more plugged into reality...
...Kaku prizes the level of instruction he received. "I'll never regret the fact that I had a Nobel Prize winner teaching me physics as a freshman. You can't get that anywhere else," he says...