Michio Kaku bio update: net worth, age, wikipedia, family, height, weight

Michio Kaku was born on January 24, 1947, in San Jose, California, USA, to parents of American and Japanese origin. He is a theoretical physicist and scientist who works as a Professor of Theoretical Physics at City College of New York. Michio is also known as an author and a TV personality, having hosted TV shows on the BBC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Science Channel.

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Early Life

This 79-year-old famous physicist was born in California on January 24, 1947. Michio Kaku’s two generations have been living in the United States continuously. He is of Japanese descent. Michio’s parents were both born in California.

During the horror periods of World War II, Japanese who were living in the United States were forcibly evicted from their homes and imprisoned to certain camps. One such camp, built on the shores of Tule Lake, held about 120,000 people. Michio’s parents were there and they met each other while they were in the camp. Michio’s older brother was born in that camp.

Michio was raised in a low-income family. Neither his father nor mother was highly educated. They never had a university education. Michio’s father was a gardener and trucker and her mather worked as a maid.

From a young age, Michio was passionate about science. He kept himself busy by reading and watching various science-related magazines and programs. As a young man, he used to create a fantasy world around him. This fictional world was full of strange characters and stories.

Michio’s childhood played an important role in establishing himself as a popular and famous physicist. He always nurtured the little boy in his mind who loved to hear stories about time travel and the existence of aliens.

Michio has made himself an attractive physicist to us because of his imaginative visionary consciousness otherwise he would look like other physicists who are famous for their annoying long time speech.

Michio Kaku Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Michio Kaku in 2026 and what is his height and weight? Well, Michio Kaku’s age is 79 years old, having been born on 24 January 1947. Though, he is 5′ 3″ in feet and inches and 170 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 155 lbs in Pound and 70kg in Kilograms.

Michio Kaku Education

Michio Kaku went on to attend Cubberley High School to complete his primary education. During his very early days in school, he could create a particle accelerator in his parent’s garage to manage a project for the science fair. He was a bright student from his very early days, and it was due to the hard work he went on to attend Berkeley radiation Lab at the University of California located in Berkeley. It was from the same university from where he could complete his Ph.D. degree as well.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Michio Kaku has not revealed any information about his personal life to the media. He has been married to Shizue Kaku, and the couple was blessed with two children in the form of a daughter whose name is Alyson and Michelle. However, Michio Kaku has not revealed much information about his personal life to the media. He is a little introvert and mostly stays inside his own world of pleasure.

Professional Career

To become a scientists Michio Kaku’s main inspiration was Albert Einstein. In 1955, Einstein the greatest scientists in the history of the world passed away. Michio was a schoolboy at that time. His teacher said that this great physicist died before he could discover the Theory of Everything.

Hearing this, Michio became fascinated with Einstein and his work and began to studying Einstein and Einstein’s work in the library.

Michio’s parents supported his curiosity and helped him experiment at home to understand Einstein’s unfinished theory.

Michio completed his graduation in 1968 from Harvard University and later he received his PhD from University of California Berkeley.

Michio is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.

Interestingly Michio once joins in the US army during the Vietnam war.

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Michio has written many books among them his notable work is Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, Parallel Worlds and Physics of the future etc. Not only he writes books but also he made a huge contribution to the blog.

Michio books were New York bestseller list for two times. First, in 2008 the Physics Of Impossible and the other one was in 2011 The Physics Of The Future. About 9thousand copies were sold at the very first week of releasing The Physics Of The Future. Michio earned 86,490dollars from that book.

Michio has broadcasted some radio shows. His famous radio show was Physics Of impossible, “Exploration” was pretty much famous back then. Here Michio talked about science, war and peace.

Michio Kaku’s most famous book Hyperspace was released in 1994. He earned 152,550dollars from this book. The interesting thing is a British Rock band Muse released an album in 2001 named Hyperspace. They said the concept of the song was adopted from Michio’s book.

Michio’s other book The Future Of The Mind was published in 2014 and earned 97,830 dollars.

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Michio Kaku Net worth

As of 2026, the net worth of Michio Kaku is estimated to be around $6 million. He has earned most of this money through research he has done over the years.