70 years old (Born on May 27, 1954)
Happy Birthday, Lawrence Krauss! May your celebrations stretch wider than the expanding universe and contain fewer black holes than a Star Trek plotline. Your cosmic wit in "A Universe from Nothing" turned complex physics into interstellar stand-up comedy—and humanity is grateful.From boldly teaching at Case Western Reserve to beaming theoretical physics onto The New York Times' pages, you've navigated science's trickiest wormholes triumphantly. So here's to another orbit around the sun filled with endless curiosity, groundbreaking ideas, and perhaps finally cracking warp speed—just promise you'll explain it clearly enough for us mere mortals to understand.