Lawrence Krauss
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Krauss at Ghent University, October 17, 2013
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| Born | Lawrence Maxwell Krauss May 27, 1954 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Thesis | Gravitation and phase transitions in the early universe (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Roscoe Giles |
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Andrew Gemant Award (2001) Lilienfeld Prize (2001) Science Writing Award (2002) Oersted Medal (2004) Richard Dawkins Award (2016) |
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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born 27 May 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project.
He is known as an advocate of the public understanding of science, of public policy based on sound empirical data, of scientific skepticism and of science education, and works to reduce the influence of what he opines as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture.
Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012), and chairs the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors.
Krauss was born in New York City, but spent his childhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was raised in a Jewish household. Krauss received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics with first class honours at Carleton University (Ottawa) in 1977, and was awarded a Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.
On January 19, 1980, he married Katherine Kelley, a native of Nova Scotia. Their daughter, Lilli, was born in 1984. Krauss and Kelley separated in 2010 and were divorced in 2012. Krauss married Nancy Dahl, an Australian-American, on January 7, 2014, and spends some of the Arizona summer in Australia at the Mount Stromlo Observatory.
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