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Feb 27, 2009 · If you looked at the Cal Tech basketball team, if you just looked at basketball in the 1950s, you would think, ’Well, Cal Tech–that’s as it should be.’ But then all of the sudden, 20 years later, it’s so very different.
In 1981, Mlodinow joined the faculty at Caltech. Later, he was named an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, Germany. In 1986, Mlodinow left full-time academia to begin a writing career.
May 28, 2008 · Professor Leonard Mlodinow visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives". This event took place on May 22, 2008, as...
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Co-author with Stephen Hawking of the best-seller Brief History of Time, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow discusses his work with Hawking on the grand design of the universe and two central questions – “where does the universe come from?”, and “why are the laws of nature what they are?”
Apr 14, 2012 · He was describing his early career at Caltech, in 1981, and why he left for Hollywood. “I was 25 and had really great opportunities in academia, but I kept thinking, ‘I’m in L.A. Hollywood’s...
May 1, 2014 · Physicist Leonard Mlodinow has an intriguing perspective on the gap between theory and reality — and our capacity to create our lives. Fundamental forces of physics determine everything that happens, “from the birth of a child to the birth of a galaxy.”
Leonard Mlodinow took a slightly circular route from holding a post-doctoral fellowship in physics at CalTech to writing popular science books for lay audiences. Along the way he spent some time in Hollywood, writing for television sitcoms and such marginally physics-friendly shows as MacGyver and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
