Of her retirement . Eastern,ay at 8 p. M. We remember some of the political figures that passed away in 2016, including nancy reagan and antonin scalia. Friday night at 8 00, hour in Memoriam Program continues with shimon peres, mohammed ali, john glenn. This week in prime time on cspan. Join us on tuesday, january 3, for live coverage of the opening day of the new congress. Watch the official swearingin of the new and reelected members of the house and senate and the election of the speaker of the house. I were all they live coverage of the days begins at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org, or you can listen to it on the free cspan radio app. Astrophysicist who is also the chief science officer for Discovery Communications talks about science and innovation. He addressed a student audience recently at Westminster College in fulton, missouri. This is one hour. I will begin. I will introduce myself. I am chris, a professor at Westminster College. It is in fact my great pleasure
Know weve a younger audience, thats wikipedia without the internet. Thats where he was introduced to Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity. After the short time in the navy, he began his higher educati education, excuse me, earning his bachelors of science in physics and mathematics and a miner chemistry, by the way. A masters degree in physics and ph. D. Would follow from stanford. Summing it up like that makes it sound easy. In interviews he points out the hardships and rewards for his perseverance, fueled by the drive to silence his doubters. Through that perseverance, his resume now includes eight u. S. Patents, a professorship in the physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of technology, being named the chief science officer for discovery communications, you might have seen him from a show called outrageous acts of science, a Research Position at mit, and most recently a position at nasa in washington, dc. His research focuses on the development of instrumentation f
Welcome to the 2021 virtual gaithersburg book festival. I am Phil Kaminski and im honored, humbled and excited to be your host for tonights presentation. Before we get started i ask that you please consider sponsoring tonights author by purchasing his book from our bookseller partner politics and prose. You will find the purchase links in the presentation description. If you consider the hardships we have been through over the past year the choice to support local and independent businesses has rarely been more necessary. We would like to extend a big thank you to our featured sponsor, the david and Michael Blair Family Foundation for their generous support. Here we go. Today it is our utmost pleasure to have with us world renowned theoretical physicist professor michio kaku, author of many wonderful books to speak on his most recent masterpiece, the New York Times bestseller the god equation, the quest for theory of everything. Todays physicists are combining isaac newtons laws of gra
Dont find the purchase link in thepresentation. If youconsider the hardships weve been through over the past year the choice to support local and independent businesses has rarely been more necessary. Thank you. We would also like to extend a big thank you to our 2021 author, the david and Michael Blair Family Foundation for their wealth of generous support. And here we go. Today it is our utmost pleasure to have with us world renowned theoretical physicist , professor michio kaku, author of many wonderful books but here to speak on his most recent masterpiece, the New York Times that seller the god equation the quest for a theory of everything. Todays physicists are on an epic adventure to combine isaac newtons laws of gravity and motion with the more recent discoveries of Quantum Mechanics and Albert Einsteins relativity which as of yet have proven to be incompatible. Ousucceeding in this endeavor will ultimately tie all the forces in the universe together into one beautiful equation