![]() His father was Latvian, and his mother was “a Lithuanian peasant who spoke twelve languages”. Julius Sumner Miller was born May 17th, 1909 in Billerica, Massachusetts, and was the youngest of nine children. Professor Miller reached thousands of students in the course of his nearly 40-year teaching career, and inspired millions more throughout North America and Australia via television programs like The Mickey Mouse Club and Miller’s own show entitled Why Is It So? His love for science is indeed infectious, as you can see in this segment about the shock value of capacitors. He was completely fascinated by physics, and deeply desired to understand it as best he could so that he could share the magic with people of all ages. Professor Miller’s was a shouting, leaping, arm-waving, whole-bodied approach to physics demonstrations. Imagine if Cosmo Kramer were a physics professor, or if that doesn’t give you an idea, just picture Doc Brown from Back to the Future (1985) with a thick New England accent and slightly darker eyebrows. His demonstrations are dramatic, delightful, and about as far away from boring old math as possible. In pictures, his stern face commands respect. Professor Julius Sumner Miller was energetic and enthusiastic about physics to the point of contagiousness. And while it’s true that the student must be willing to learn, having a good teacher helps immensely. The fun is in the hands-on learning, the lab work, the live action demonstrations of Mother Nature’s power and prowess. Request for a Skype session here.Let’s face it - for the average person, math and formulas are not the most attractive side of physics. To make a booking for your class, contact:Įmail: if you can't get to Sydney, Karl is also using Skype to beam into classrooms across the world. Excellent for motivating students about science! Why not catch Dr Karl's "Great Moments in Science'' talk during your next University of Sydney tour. Visit Dr Karl's website Book in a Dr Karl talk His hobbies include travelling through the outback, family fun, fitness, music, dancing a lot, and writing for 4WD magazines. Karl has written more than 40 books with more on the way. Dr Karl also does Skype Q&A sessions with schools twice a week. His latest podcast ‘Shirtloads of Science’ comes out of Sydney University and features women in STEM and fellow academics talking about their work. The ABC, triple J and weekly ‘Great Moments in Science’ podcasts together have 4.5 million downloads a year. This includes a national weekly, one-hour science talkback show on triple J – attracting over 750, 000 listeners in the five mainland capitals. In radio, he speaks on-air for about five hours every week. ![]() In the media, he was a writer and presenter for the first series of ‘Quantum’, and has been a science commentator on TV ever since. ![]() He speaks at secondary and tertiary institutions, and corporate events. In addition to his degrees in Physics and Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine and Surgery, he has studied several non-degree years at various universities in Astrophysics, Computer Science and Philosophy. McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory in Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, on June 13, 1993. Asteroid Dr Karl/18412 was discovered by Robert H. In 2012 Karl was delighted to have Asteroid 18412 named after him. In 2007 the Australia Skeptics Society awarded Dr Karl the Australia Skeptic Of The Year Prize. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki also received the Member of the Order of Australia Award in the 2006 Australia Day Honours list. ![]() In September 2003, Dr Karl was bestowed with the great honour of being named ‘Australian Father of the Year’. In 2002, Dr Karl was honoured with the prestigious Ig Nobel prize awarded by Harvard University in the USA for his ground-breaking research into Belly Button Lint and why it is almost always blue. The Apple Masters Program celebrates the achievements of people who are changing the world through their passion and vision, while inspiring new approaches to creative thinking. ![]() In August 2000 he was one of the first eight Australian Apple Masters to be announced (there are fewer than 100 in the entire world). He has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, filmmaker, biomedical engineer (when he designed and built a machine to pick up electrical signals from the human retina), TV weatherman, and medical doctor at The Children’s Hospital in Sydney.ĭr Karl has won a number of prestigious and unique awards throughout his career. He is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. Karl Kruszelnicki used to be a “proper pukka scientist, engineer and doctor”, but is currently an author and science commentator on radio and TV. ![]()
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