Leonard Mlodinow
Dr. (PhD)
Dr. Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology.
In addition to many pioneering academic research papers, he has authored children’s books, and popular science books, including five bestsellers. His book, Subliminal: How Our Unconscious Mind Rules Our Behavior, won the 2013 PEN/Wilson award as best literary science book. His book, The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, was a New York Times editor’s choice and notable book of the year, and won the Robert P. Balles Prize in critical thinking, and the Liber Press (Spain) Award for the popularization of science, in addition to being short-listed for the Royal Society book award. The Grand Design, co-authored with Stephen Hawking, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and was made into a three-part documentary on the Discovery Channel. He is also the co-author, with Deepak Chopra, of War of the Worldviews: Science and Spirituality.
Dr. Mlodinow has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Nature, Discover magazine, Wired, Timemagazine, The New York Review of Books, Psychology Today, and other mass-market publications.
He has appeared in films such as Jeff Bridges’ documentary Living in the Future’s Past, and on numerous television programs including Morning Joe, and Through the Wormhole. He has also created several award-winning video games, including one in conjunction with Steven Spielberg and another that starred Robin Williams. Dr. Mlodinow has written for network television, including the series MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the comedy Night Court.
He is a popular international speaker who has given lectures on four continents, at universities such as Caltech and Harvard, and for corporations ranging from Google and Microsoft to Pepsi and the MLB.
