Lawrence M. Krauss is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on May 27, 1954 in New York, United States. Krauss was born May 27th, 1954 within New York City, but was raised living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Krauss was raised in a home which was Jewish but was not religious. Krauss graduated with bachelor degrees in physics and mathematics with top marks from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1977. He was also awarded an honorary Ph.D. in Physics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.
Krauss is a regular in the media in the United States and internationally to help spread the word about science. He also wrote pieces of editorials in The New York Times. Because of his appearance before Ohio’s state board for education Ohio his disapproval of the intelligent design of schools has garnered national acclaim.
After some time in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Krauss became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1985 and associate professor in 1988. He left Yale for Case Western Reserve University in 1993 when he was named the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy, and chairman of the physics department until 2005. In 2006, Krauss led the initiative for the no-confidence vote against Case Western Reserve University’s president Edward M. Hundert and provost John L. Anderson by the College of Arts and Sciences faculty. On March 2, 2006, both no-confidence votes were carried: 131–44 against Hundert and 97–68 against Anderson.
In August 2008, Krauss joined the faculty at Arizona State University as a Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also became the Director of the Origins Project, a university initiative “created to explore humankind’s most fundamental questions about our origins”. In 2009, he helped inaugurate this initiative at the Origins Symposium, in which eighty scientists participated and three thousand people attended.
Krauss has written a number of popular books such as The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012) as well as chairing for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors.
