Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence Krauss is a Canadian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist known for his work explaining science to the public. Born in New York City and raised in Toronto, he earned degrees in mathematics and physics at Carleton University and a physics doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. After a period at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he taught at Yale University and then led the physics department at Case Western Reserve University before joining Arizona State University in 2008, where he started the Origins Project and directed it. His books include The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing, and he has hosted The Origins Podcast. In 2012 he received the National Science Board's Public Service Medal, and he has appeared in films such as The Unbelievers (2013), Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016), The Farthest (2017), Salt and Fire (2016), and Intersect (2020).