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Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University (ASU), Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.
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Born 27 May 1954 · Q470468
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform published additional files related to Epstein showing that he had exchanged more than 60 emails with Krauss
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2024· 3 entries
Published video “William J Perry & Lawrence Krauss An Origins Project Dialogue OFFICIAL Part 02 Export”.
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Published video “William J Perry & Lawrence Krauss An Origins Project Dialogue OFFICIAL Part 01 export”.
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Krauss edited the book The War on Science, a collection of essays from 39 academics addressing perceived threats to academic freedom and scientific progress, such as DEI programs, wokeness, and cancel culture
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2022· 3 entries
Published video “Why I became a Theoretical Physicist II: The Tennis Racket Theorem”.
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Published video “Why I became a Theoretical Physicist 1: The unexpected discovery of James Clerk Maxwell”.
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Published video “A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky on the occasion of his Rienhard Hesse 'Freedom of Science' Prize.”.
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2021· 3 entries
Published video “Johnny Depp & Lawrence Krauss (PT02): Finding The Creativity In Madness”.
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Published video “Johnny Depp & Lawrence Krauss (PT01): Finding The Creativity In Madness”.
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Published video “SALT AND FIRE: A Conversation with Werner Herzog, Jeffrey Sachs & Lawrence Krauss”.
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2020· 3 entries
Published video “The Physics of Climate Change: some possibly surprising things relevant to CO2 and my new book.”.
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Published video “#5minphysics 26: Special Episode: The Future.. as it might be”.
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Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,839 times.
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2019· 1 entry
A new video podcast, The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss, launched with Krauss as host
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2017· 1 entry
His newest book, The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here
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2016· 2 entries
Awarded Richard Dawkins Award (2016).
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Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (2015).
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2013· 2 entries
Accepted a part-time professorship at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the physics department of the Australian National University
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“Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing”
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2012· 1 entry
Was awarded the National Science Board's Public Service Medal for his contributions to public education in science and engineering in the United States
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Physics World Book of the Year Award (2011).
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Krauss told an interviewer, "As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whate
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Krauss wrote to Epstein, "Beyond anything else, you are my friend
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2010· 1 entry
Was elected to the board of directors of the Federation of American Scientists, and in June 2011, he joined the professoriate of the New College of the Humanities, a private college in London
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2009· 1 entry
Helped inaugurate this initiative at the Origins Symposium, in which eighty scientists participated and three thousand people attended
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2008· 3 entries
To investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director
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“As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I”
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Was named co-president of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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2006· 3 entries
Both no-confidence votes were carried: 131–44 against Hundert and 97–68 against Anderson
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Krauss helped organize a conference on gravity funded by a foundation run by financier and later-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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Krauss led the initiative for the no-confidence vote against Case Western Reserve University's president Edward M
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (2005).
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“we still have no idea if this remarkable theoretical edifice actually has anything to do with the real world”
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2004· 1 entry
Won Oersted Medal (2004).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Science Writing Award (2002).
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Before the state school board of Ohio, his opposition to intelligent design has gained national prominence
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Andrew Gemant Award (2001).
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Awarded Lilienfeld Prize (2001).
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1998· 1 entry
This prediction was confirmed by two observational collaborations and in 2011 the Nobel Prize was awarded for their discovery
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1995· 1 entry
Argued in favour of the energy-density of the universe being dominated by the energy of empty space, quoting many other scientists who supported the existence of a nonzero cosmological constant
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1994· 2 entries
“If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.”
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“My area of research is something that in all fairness has no practical usability whatsoever and the thing is I'm often asked to apologize for that. It is interesting to me that people ask 'what's the point of doing that if it's not useful?' But they never ask that, or do they very rarely ask that about art or literature or music. Those things are not gonna produce a better toaster.”
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1993· 1 entry
When he was named the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy, and chairman of the physics department until 2005
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1954· 3 entries
Born 1954-05-27.
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In New York City, but spent his childhood in Toronto
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“s home. On November 12, 2025, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform published additional files related to Epstein showing that he had exchanged more than 60 emails with Krauss. In 2011, Krauss wrote to Epstein,”
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