Biography
Lawrence Krauss calls himself an enlightenment and not just an atheist, but an antiterist. According to the scientist, many of the problems of modernity could solve education - not as the transfer of the amount of facts, but as an understanding of the essence of science and stimulating the desire to think. Favorite crawl quote:"If you have only a hammer, it seems that any problem is a nail."Childhood and youth
Astrophysic was born on May 27, 1954 in New York in a Jewish non-religious family. Soon parents transported the boy to Toronto, where his childhood passed.
Mother Lawrence wanted the Son to become a doctor. The boy interpreted the word "doctor" as a scientist and caught fire. At 11, he read the work of Albert Einstein, understood little, but wanted to become a physicist.
In the biography of Lawrence there is an interesting fact: in 1967, a teenager along with a group of American and Canadian schoolchildren visited Leningrad and Moscow. On the young crawl, a strong impression was made by Mausoleum Vladimir Lenin. Surprised by a resident of America and the fact that luxury items were sold in the USSR for foreign currency. The physicist told about children's impressions in an interview, given in 2017 during the second visit to Moscow at the Geek Picnic festival,
10 years after the trip to the Soviet Union, Krauss received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics with honors from Ottawa University. In 1982, Lawrence became a doctor of philosophy, defending his thesis in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Personal life
About the personal life of the popularism of science is known little. Lawrence was married twice. The first alliance with Catherine Kelly lasted 32 years. 2 years after the divorce, a man took Nancy Dal. In the house of Krasus, a small white dog and a gray striped cat, photos of which often appear in the "Instagram" account of the scientist.
At the end of the zero anniversary of the XXI century, Lawrence became the director of the "origins" project, created to study the issues of the origin of life. One of the sponsors was the Fund "Improved Education" of the Financier Jeffrey Epstein, in 2008 convicted for coercion to prostitution of juvenile girls, and in 2019 accused of sexual trade.
In 2011, commenting on the acquaintance with Epstein, Krauss said that as a scientist can only rely on empirical data with respect to Jeffrey, and as a citizen is based on presumption of innocence.
Among the buddies of the financier in youth was also Donald Trump, who is now Lawrence, as well as Vladimir Putin, accuses the statements that pushing humanity to a nuclear catastrophe.
In February 2018, Krauss accused sexual harassment. When the author of the book "Why we exist. The greatest of ever told stories "in 2016 was at a conference in Australia, an unfamiliar woman asked physics after a lecture to take pictures with her. The photo captured that Lawrence touched the stranger's chest.
Despite the approval of the "injured" ladies that she coped with shock and does not believe that the incident must destroy the Craus career, as well as the explanation of the scientist, allegedly the touch was random, Lawrence, without taking into account the achievements in physics, ceased to be the director of the "origins" project. At the end of 2018/2019 academic year, astrophysician quit from Arizona University, in which he worked.
The science
In the 80s of the XX century, Krauss worked in Harvard and Yale Universities. In 1993, Lawrence headed the Faculty of Faculty of Private Research University in Cleveland and for 12 years she brought him to the twenty of the best faculties of physics in the United States. Since 2002, he has been the director of the Center for Research on Cosmology and Astrophysics, and since 2008 also a professor of the department of Earth and Space Research by the University of Arizona.
Lawrence first of physicists became the owner of at once three professional premiums: the American Institute of Physics, American Physics and the American Association of Physics Teachers. The first of these awards the scientist received for the book "Atom: Odyssey from a big explosion to life on earth and beyond", published in 2001 and an international bestseller.
The deserved success of the readers enjoy the work of Krauss "Fear of Physics", having a subtitle "spherical horse in vacuum", as well as the "Star Path" physics. In the book "All from nothing: how the Universe arose" Lawrence is very critically assessed by the theory of strings, the supporter of which Alexander Vilenkin appears.
Louuren's tasks sees in popularizing science and confrontation of the obscury. In addition to books and articles, the scientist finds other ways to the hearts and brains of the audience: television and Internet projects, cycles of popular science films. The attention of millions of viewers was riveted to the Debatam of Craus and Hamza Testzovis "Islam or atheism, which is more meaning."
Lawrence exposes sharply about religion, believing that faith in the gods disconnects people, only science can combine. In the 2012 documentary film, "unbelievers" Krauss and Biologist-Evolucedist Richard Dobinz traveled around the world and opposed the mind and science to superstitions.
In 2017, Lawrence visited Jo Rogan. The presenter and the scientist talked about whether the laws of physics are constant and is it possible to consider science as art. Not less popular in the network received a professor's dialogue with Johnny Depp, the topic of which is "madness as a basis of creativity."
In January 2019, Klauss became president of the Origins Project Foundation Foundation - a non-profit corporation intended for public debate on science, culture and social issues. After 5 months, a new video creast The Origins Podcast was launched leading to Lawrence, and the first guests are Riki Zherev and Noam Khomsky. .
Lawrence Krauss now
In the summer of 2020, Krauss published an article about racism and beggars in the fight against it "ideological damage of science. According to Astrophysics, the leaders of science in the United States used the murder of the African American George Floyd by the Minneapolis police officers to combat dissent and repression against scientists and teachers.In Princeton University, each faculty was obliged, including physical and mathematical, to defend the thesis on "anti-racistic themes". Scientists are dismissed for the reposit, there are insufficient politically correct articles, and their colleagues are silent from fear to lose funding. Science suffers whenever it becomes a victim of ideology, and the situation in the United States, from the point of view of Lawrence, is now approaching the struggle of Joseph Stalin with genetics or Adolf Hitler with "Jewish sciences".
Bibliography
- 1989 - "Fifth Element: Search for Dark Matter in the Universe
- 1994 - "Fear of physics. Spherical horse in vacuum "
- 1995 - "Star Path Physics"
- 1997 - "Infinity of the Star Path"
- 2000 - "Quintessence: mystery of the missing mass"
- 2001 - "Atom: Odyssey from a big explosion to life on earth and beyond"
- 2008 - "Hiding in the mirror"
- 2011 - "Quantum man: the life of Richard Feynman in science"
- 2012 - "All of nothing: how did the universe arose"
- 2017 - "Why do we exist? The greatest of ever told stories "