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| birth_name        = Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
| birth_place       = New York City, U.S.
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| field             = {{unbulleted list |[[Theoretical physics]] |[[Cosmology]]}}
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| known_for         = {{unbulleted list |[[Dark energy]] |Zero-energy states}}
| prizes            = {{unbulleted list | [[Andrew Gemant Award]] (2001) | [[Lilienfeld Prize]] (2001) | [[Science Writing Award]] (2002) | [[Oersted Medal]] (2004) | [[Richard Dawkins Award]] (2016)}}
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'''Lawrence Maxwell Krauss''' (born May 27, 1954) is a  Canadian-American  [[theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] and [[physical cosmology|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.

Krauss is an advocate for [[public awareness of science|public understanding of science]], public policy based on sound [[empirical data]], [[scientific skepticism]], and [[science education]]. An [[anti-theist]], Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in [[popular culture]].<ref name="Krauss 2010">{{Cite magazine |title=Faith and Foolishness: When Religious Beliefs Become Dangerous |last1=Krauss |first1=Lawrence |date=August 2010 |magazine=Scientific American |volume=303 |issue=2 |page=36 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0810-36 |pmid=20684370 |issn=0036-8733}}</ref> Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including ''[[The Physics of Star Trek]]'' (1995) and ''[[A Universe from Nothing]]'' (2012), and chaired the ''[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]'' Board of Sponsors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Derra |first1=Skip |title=ASU's Krauss elected board chair for Bulletin of Atomic Scientists |url=https://news.asu.edu/content/asus-krauss-elected-board-chair-bulletin-atomic-scientists |website=ASU News |access-date=13 November 2025}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Lawrence M. Krauss |url=https://thebulletin.org/biography/lawrence-m-krauss-2/ |website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |access-date=13 November 2025}}</ref>

Upon investigating allegations about sexual misconduct by Krauss, ASU determined that Krauss had violated university policy, and did not renew his directorship of ASU's Origins Project directorship for a third term in July 2018.<ref name="Wadman 2018"/> Krauss retired as a professor at ASU in May 2019, at the end of the following academic year. As of 2022,<ref>{{cite web |title=ORIGINS PROJECT FOUNDATION INC Tax Year  2022 Form 990 |url=https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/832843258_202212_990_2024010922200227.pdf |website=IRS.gov |publisher=IRS |access-date=14 November 2025}}</ref> he was listed as Principal Officer of The Origins Project Foundation, Inc. (a new organization, founded in 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=Determination Letter: FinalLetter_83-2843258_THEORIGINSPROJECTFOUNDATIONINC_01222019_01 |url=https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/dl/FinalLetter_83-2843258_THEORIGINSPROJECTFOUNDATIONINC_01222019_01.tif |website=IRS.gov |access-date=14 November 2025}}</ref>). <ref>[https://www.originsproject.org/ Origins Project Foundation].</ref> Krauss hosts ''The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss''<ref name="Origins Podcast">{{Cite web |url=https://www.originsproject.org/podcast/ |title=The Origins Podcast (now a part of the Origins Project Foundation) |publisher=The Origins Project Foundation}}{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref> and 
publishes a blog titled ''Critical Mass''.<ref>[https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/ ''Critical Mass'']. Via [[Substack]].</ref>

==Early life and education==
Krauss was born on May 27, 1954, in [[New York City]], but spent his childhood in [[Toronto]]. He was raised in a household that was Jewish but not religious.<ref name="WHYY 2017">{{Cite news |author=<!--anonymous author(s)--> |url=https://whyy.org/articles/on-radio-times-lawrence-krauss-explains-the-curious-accident-of-human-existence/ |title=On 'Radio Times:' Lawrence Krauss explains the 'curious accident' of human existence |publisher=WHYY-FM |location=Philadelphia |date=March 20, 2017 |access-date=March 21, 2020}}</ref> Krauss received undergraduate degrees in [[mathematics]] and [[physics]] with [[first-class honours]] at [[Carleton University]] in [[Ottawa]] in 1977, and was awarded a Ph.D. in physics at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cualumni.carleton.ca/grads/krauss-lawrence-m/ |title=Lawrence M. Krauss, BSc / 77 |publisher=Carleton University Alumni Association |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071149/http://cualumni.carleton.ca/grads/krauss-lawrence-m/ |archive-date=April 7, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.web.mit.edu/physics/news/physicsatmit/physicsatmit_03_alumnotes.pdf |title=Alumni/ae Notes |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |date=2003 |access-date=March 31, 2014}}{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref>

==Career==
After some time in the [[Harvard Society of Fellows]], Krauss became an assistant professor at [[Yale University]] in 1985 and associate professor in 1988. He left Yale for [[Case Western Reserve University]] in 1993 when he was named the [[Ambrose Swasey]] Professor of Physics, professor of [[astronomy]], and chairman of the physics department until 2005. In 2006, Krauss led the initiative for the no-confidence vote against Case Western Reserve University's president [[Edward M. Hundert]] and provost [[John L. Anderson]] by the College of Arts and Sciences faculty. On March 2, 2006, both no-confidence votes were carried: 131–44 against Hundert and 97–68 against Anderson.<ref name="Jaschik 2006">{{cite news |last1=Jaschik |first1=Scott |title=President Quits at Case Western |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/17/president-quits-case-western |access-date=23 October 2025 |work=Inside Higher Ed |date=March 17, 2006 |language=en |url-access=limited}}</ref>

In August 2008, Krauss joined the faculty at [[Arizona State University]] as a foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also became the director of the Origins Project, a university initiative "created to explore humankind's most fundamental questions about our origins".<ref name="Origins Project 2015">{{cite web |url=https://origins.asu.edu/about#tabs-0-toprow3col1-5 |title=About The Origins Project |website=Origins.asu.edu |date=April 21, 2015 |publisher=Arizona State University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731143940/https://origins.asu.edu/about |archive-date=July 31, 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 13, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Krauss CV">{{cite web |last=Krauss |first=Lawrence |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=http://genesis1.asu.edu/cv.htm |publisher=Arizona State University |access-date=August 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref> In 2009, he helped inaugurate this initiative at the Origins Symposium, in which eighty scientists participated and three thousand people attended.<ref name="ASU 2009">{{cite web |title=Origins Symposium 2009 |url=http://origins.asu.edu/symposium/ |website=Origins.asu.edu |publisher=Arizona State University |access-date=August 14, 2011}}{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref>

Krauss appears in the media both at home and abroad to facilitate public outreach in science. He has also written editorials for ''[[The New York Times]]''. As a result of his appearance in 2002 before the state school board of [[Ohio]], his opposition to [[intelligent design]] has gained national prominence.<ref name="Ratliff 2004">{{cite magazine |last1=Ratliff |first1=Evan |title=The Crusade Against Evolution |url=https://www.wired.com/2004/10/evolution-2/ |magazine=Wired |date=October 2004 |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=156–161 |issn=1059-1028 |language=en |url-access=limited}}</ref>

Krauss attended and was a speaker at the [[Beyond Belief: Science, Religion, Reason and Survival|Beyond Belief]] symposia in November 2006 and October 2008. He served on the science policy committee for [[Barack Obama]]'s first (2008) presidential campaign and, also in 2008, was named co-president of the board of sponsors of the ''[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]''. In 2010, he 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.<ref>[http://www.nchum.org/who-we-are/the-professoriate "The professoriate"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608234526/http://www.nchum.org/who-we-are/the-professoriate |date=June 8, 2011 }}, New College of the Humanities, accessed June 8, 2011.</ref> In 2013, he accepted a part-time professorship at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the physics department of the [[Australian National University]].<ref name="ANU 2013">{{cite web |title=Renowned cosmologist makes ANU a long-term fixture |publisher=Australian National University |date=May 31, 2013 |url=http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/news-events/renowned-cosmologist-makes-anu-long-term-fixture |access-date=March 17, 2016}}{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref>

Krauss is a critic of [[string theory]], which he discusses in his 2005 book ''[[Hiding in the Mirror]]''.<ref name="Boutin 2005">{{cite web |last=Boutin |first=Paul |title=Theory of Anything? Physicist Lawrence Krauss Turns on His Own |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2131014/ |website=Slate |access-date=August 14, 2011 |date=November 23, 2005}}</ref> In his 2012 book ''[[A Universe from Nothing]]'' Krauss says about string theory "we still have no idea if this remarkable theoretical edifice actually has anything to do with the real world".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reynosa |first1=Peter |title=Some of the Changes Lawrence M. Krauss Should Make to the Second Edition of 'A Universe From Nothing' |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-reynosa/some-of-the-changes-lawre_b_9664630.html |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=April 14, 2016 |date=April 12, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Krauss |first1=Lawrence M. |title=A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing |url=https://archive.org/details/universefromnoth0000krau_j5o0/page/130/mode/1up?view=theater |url-access=registration |date=2012 |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4516-2445-8 |page=130}}</ref> Released in March 2011, another book titled ''[[Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science]]'', while ''[[A Universe from Nothing]]''{{em dash}}with an afterword by [[Richard Dawkins]]{{em dash}}was released in January 2012, and became a ''New York Times'' bestseller within a week. Originally, its foreword was to have been written by [[Christopher Hitchens]], but Hitchens grew too ill to complete it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644421-afterword-from-lawrence-krauss-new-book-a-universe-from-nothing |title=Afterword from Lawrence Krauss' New Book – A Universe From Nothing – Richard Dawkins – RDFRS |website=RichardDawkins.net |date=January 16, 2012 |access-date=February 23, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/science/space/cosmologists-try-to-explain-a-universe-springing-from-nothing.html |title=There's More to Nothing Than We Knew |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |date=February 20, 2012 |website=The New York Times |access-date=January 2, 2020 |url-access=limited}}</ref> The paperback version of the book appeared in January 2013 with a new question-and-answer section and a preface integrating the 2012 discovery of the [[Higgs boson]] at the [[Large Hadron Collider]]. On March 21, 2017, his newest book, ''The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?'' was released in hardcover, paperback, and audio version.

A July 2012 article in ''[[Newsweek]]'', written by Krauss, indicates how the [[Higgs particle]] is related to our understanding of the [[Big Bang]]. He also wrote a longer piece in ''The New York Times'' explaining the science behind and significance of the particle.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Krauss |first1=Lawrence M. |title=How the Higgs Boson Posits a New Story of our Creation |url=https://www.newsweek.com/how-higgs-boson-posits-new-story-our-creation-65567 |access-date=23 October 2025 |work=Newsweek |date=9 July 2012 |language=en}}</ref>

In January 2019, Krauss became President of the Origins Project Foundation,<ref name="Origins Project Foundation">{{cite web |url=https://originsprojectfoundation.org/people/ |title=People – The Origins Project Foundation |language=en |archive-date=March 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320191527/https://originsprojectfoundation.org/people/}}</ref> a non-profit corporation intended to host public panel discussions on science, culture, and social issues.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://originsprojectfoundation.org/events/ |title=Origins Project Foundation Events |website=The Origins Project Foundation |access-date=June 18, 2019}}{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref> On June 21, 2019, a new video podcast, ''The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss'', launched with Krauss as host.<ref name="Origins Podcast"/> The first episodes included dialogues with Ricky Gervais, Noam Chomsky, and Jenny Boylan.

In 2024, 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. Contributors include [[Nicholas Christakis]], [[Richard Dawkins]], [[Peter Boghossian]], [[Jordan Peterson]], [[Steven Pinker]], [[Alan Sokal]] and [[Elizabeth Weiss]]. Krauss wrote an introductory overview and an epilogue. This is his third book published through the conservative Christian imprint [[Post Hill Press]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://posthillpress.com/authors/lawrence-m-krauss |title=Lawrence M. Krauss |website=[[Post Hill Press]] |access-date=March 1, 2025}}</ref>

==Scientific work==
[[File:Lawrence Krauss 7-14-2012.JPG|thumb|Krauss lecturing about cosmology at [[The Amaz!ng Meeting|TAM]] 2012]]

Krauss mostly works in [[theoretical physics]] and has published research on a variety of topics within that field. In 1995 he 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]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Cosmological Constant is Back |journal=General Relativity and Gravitation |volume=27 |issue=11 |pages=1137–1144 |arxiv=astro-ph/9504003 |doi=10.1007/BF02108229 |year=1995 |last1=Krauss |first1=Lawrence M. |last2=Turner |first2=Michael S. |bibcode=1995GReGr..27.1137K |s2cid=14652827}}</ref>  In 1998 this prediction was confirmed by two observational collaborations and in 2011 the Nobel Prize was awarded for their discovery.  Krauss has formulated a model in which the Universe could have potentially come from "nothing", as outlined in his 2012 book ''[[A Universe from Nothing]]''. He explains that certain arrangements of relativistic quantum fields might explain the existence of the Universe as we know it while disclaiming that he "has no idea if the notion [of taking quantum mechanics for granted] can be usefully dispensed with".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html |title=On the Origin of Everything |date=March 25, 2012 |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited}}</ref> As his model appears to agree with experimental observations of the Universe (such as its shape and energy density), it is referred to by some as a "plausible hypothesis".<ref name="Boutin 2005"/><ref name="Dreifus 2004">{{cite magazine |title=Questions That Plague Physics: A Conversation with Lawrence M. Krauss |magazine=Scientific American |last=Dreifus |first=Claudia |date=August 2004 |volume=291 |issue=2 |pages=82–85 |issn=0036-8733 |jstor=26060650 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0804-82 |doi-broken-date=November 3, 2025 }}</ref> His model has been criticized by cosmologist and theologian [[George F. R. Ellis|George Ellis]],<ref name="Horgan 2015">{{Cite news |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-lawrence-krauss-a-physicist-or-just-a-bad-philosopher/ |title=Is Lawrence Krauss a Physicist, or Just a Bad Philosopher? |last=Horgan |first=John |work=Scientific American Blog Network |access-date=March 7, 2018 |language=en |date=November 20, 2015 |url-access=limited}}</ref> who said it "is not tested science" but "philosophical speculation".

Initially, Krauss was skeptical of the existence of the [[Higgs boson]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Krauss |first1=Lawrence M. |title=The greatest story ever told... so far |date=2017 |publisher=Atria Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4767-7761-0 |page=255}}</ref> However, after it was detected by [[CERN]], he researched the implications of the Higgs field on the nature of [[dark energy]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 061802 (2013): Higgs Seesaw Mechanism as a Source for Dark Energy |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=111 |issue=6 |article-number=061802 |date=August 7, 2013 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.061802 |pmid=23971559 |last1=Krauss |first1=Lawrence M. |last2=Dent |first2=James B. |arxiv=1306.3239 |s2cid=37617416}}</ref>

==Activism==
[[File:Solidarity message to ex-Muslims - Lawrence Krauss.webm|thumb|Lawrence Krauss sends a solidarity message to [[Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain|ex-Muslims convening in London]] in July 2017.]]
Krauss has argued that [[public policy]] debates in the United States should have a greater focus on science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2015/08/21/presidential-candidates-should-talk-science-362063.html |title=It's Time for Presidential Candidates to Talk About Science |author=Nina Burleigh |date=August 12, 2015 |work=Newsweek |quote='Leading the national discussion requires some basic knowledge of what the important issues are, what is known and not known, and what new efforts need to be commenced,' says physicist Lawrence Krauss. 'Scientific data is not Democratic or Republican.'}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFsYpvW2mBY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/bFsYpvW2mBY |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Lawrence Krauss on Science Debate |date=February 23, 2008 |work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-m-krauss/americans-deserve-a-presi_b_1364739.html |title=Americans Deserve a Presidential Science Debate |author1=Lawrence M Krauss |author2-link=Shawn Lawrence Otto |author2=Shawn Lawrence Otto |date=March 20, 2012 |work=The Huffington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |quote=Too little of the US presidential campaign mentions science, says Krauss, considering its importance. |url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/lawrence-krauss---the-lhc-going-to-mars-and-the-us/3186544 |work=The Science Show |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=September 27, 2008 |title=Lawrence Krauss – The LHC, going to Mars, and the US Presidential campaign}}</ref> He criticized Republican presidential candidate [[Ben Carson]]'s statements on science, writing that Carson's remarks "suggest he never learned or chooses to ignore basic, well-tested scientific concepts".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/ben-carsons-scientific-ignorance |title=Ben Carson's Scientific Ignorance |author=Lawrence Krauss |date=September 28, 2015 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref>

Krauss has described himself as an [[antitheist]]<ref>"I cannot hide my own intellectual bias here. As I state in the first sentence of the book, I have never been sympathetic to the notion that creation requires a creator. And like our late friend, Christopher Hitchens, I find the possibility of living in a universe that was not created for my existence, in which my actions and thoughts need not bend to the whims of a creator, far more enriching and meaningful than the other alternative. In that sense, I view myself as an anti-theist rather than an atheist." {{aut|Krauss, Lawrence M.}}, [http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/everything-and-nothing Everything and Nothing: An Interview with Lawrence M. Krauss] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201081925/http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/everything-and-nothing |date=December 1, 2017 }}. Samharris.org, January 3, 2012</ref> and takes part in public debates on religion. Krauss is featured in the 2013 documentary ''[[The Unbelievers]]'', in which he and [[Richard Dawkins]] travel across the globe speaking publicly about the importance of science and reason as opposed to religion and superstition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/2/8/the-unbelievers-2013-official-movie-trailer-richard-dawkins-lawrence-krauss |title=The Unbelievers Official Trailer (Richard Dawkins & Lawrence Krauss) |date=February 8, 2013 |publisher=[[Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103113527/http://www.richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2013/2/8/the-unbelievers-2013-official-movie-trailer-richard-dawkins-lawrence-krauss |archive-date=November 3, 2013}}</ref> He has participated in many debates with religious [[Apologetics|apologists]], including [[William Lane Craig]]<ref name="Barnes 2013">[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/08/13/3824063.htm A universe from nothing? Putting the Krauss-Craig debate into perspective] by Luke Barnes, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 13, 2013.{{dead link|date=October 2025}}</ref> and John Lennox.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brierley |first=Justin |title=Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian |date=2017 |publisher=SPCK |location=London |isbn=978-0-281-07799-1 |page=29}}</ref>

In his book ''[[A Universe from Nothing|A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing]]'' (2012), Krauss discusses the premise that [[Creation ex nihilo|something cannot come from nothing]], which has often been used as an argument for the existence of a [[Unmoved mover|prime mover]]. He has since argued in a debate with [[John Ellis (physicist, born 1946)|John Ellis]] and [[Don Cupitt]] that the laws of physics allow for the Universe to be created from nothing. "What would be the characteristics of a universe that was created from nothing, just with the laws of physics and without any supernatural shenanigans? The characteristics of the universe would be precisely those of the ones we live in."<ref>{{cite web |type=video |last=Krauss |first=Lawrence |title=Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing |url=http://iai.tv/video/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing |publisher=Institute of Art and Ideas |date=n.d. |access-date=January 21, 2014}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[The Atlantic]]'', however, he states that he has never claimed that "questions about origins are over". According to Krauss, "I don't ever claim to resolve that infinite regress of why-why-why-why-why; as far as I'm concerned it's [[turtles all the way down]]".<ref>{{cite web |last=Andersen |first=Ross |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/has-physics-made-philosophy-and-religion-obsolete/256203/ |title=Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete? |magazine=The Atlantic |date=April 23, 2012 |access-date=June 12, 2014 |url-access=limited}}</ref>

==Honors==
In an interview with Krauss in the ''[[Scientific American]]'', science writer [[Claudia Dreifus]] called Krauss "one of the few top physicists who is also known as a [[public intellectual]]."<ref name="Dreifus 2004"/> Krauss is one of very few to have received awards from all three major American physics societies: the [[American Physical Society]], the [[American Association of Physics Teachers]], and the [[American Institute of Physics]]. In 2012, he was awarded the [[National Science Board]]'s Public Service Medal for his contributions to [[Public education in the United States|public education]] in science and engineering in the United States.<ref>University of Texas at Austin. [http://www.ph.utexas.edu/oakes/krauss.html The M.E.L. Oakes Undergraduate Lecture Series] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726073048/http://www.ph.utexas.edu/oakes/krauss.html |date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref>

==Controversies==
===Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein===
In 2006, Krauss helped organize a conference on gravity funded by a foundation run by financier and later convicted sex offender [[Jeffrey Epstein]]. The conference was held on [[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands|St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands]] and included a trip to Epstein's private island for dinner.<ref name="Patel 2019">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/13/20692415/jeffrey-epstein-scientists-sexual-harassment |title=Jeffrey Epstein liked palling around with scientists—what do they think now? |last=Patel |first=Neel |work=The Verge |quote=Krauss has long been an organizer for Epstein's scientific conferences, helping to collect many big names to gather under a single event. The biggest is perhaps a 2006 conference dedicated to understanding gravity, held at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, and bringing in scientists like the late Stephen Hawking |date=July 13, 2019 |access-date=January 18, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Kantor 2019">{{cite web |last1=Kantor |first1=Jodi |last2=McIntire |first2=Mike |last3=Friedman |first3=Vanessa |title=Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway. |website=The New York Times |date=July 13, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-elite.html |access-date=September 8, 2025 |url-access=limited}}</ref> Krauss helped invite roughly 20 well-known physicists to the conference, including [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[David Gross]], [[Frank Wilczek]], [[Stephen Hawking]], [[Kip Thorne]], [[Lisa Randall]], [[Maria Spiropulu]], [[Barry Barish]], and [[Alan Guth]], as well as author [[Betsy Devine]].<ref name="Krauss 2006">{{cite web |last=Krauss |first=Lawrence M. |title=The Energy of Empty Space that Isn't Zero |website=Edge.org |date=July 5, 2006 |url=https://www.edge.org/conversation/lawrence_m_krauss-the-energy-of-empty-space-that-isnt-zero |access-date=September 8, 2025}}</ref>

Later, The Origins Project, which was at the time under the direction of Krauss, received $250,000 from an Epstein foundation called "Enhanced Education".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Jeffrey Epstein Called Himself A "Science Philanthropist" And Donated Millions To These Researchers |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-science-donations |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250211154036/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-science-donations |archive-date=February 11, 2025 |access-date=February 15, 2025 |work=BuzzFeed News |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Moreno |first=J. Edward |title=Lawrence Krauss, accused of sexual misconduct, received $250K from Jeffrey Epstein |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2019/07/12/former-asu-physicist-lawrence-krauss-got-250-k-jeffrey-epstein/1718659001/ |access-date=February 15, 2025 |website=The Arizona Republic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Potter 2019">{{cite news |last1=Potter |first1=Alexis |last2=Hunter B. |first2=Chase |title=Former ASU professor Lawrence Krauss received $250,000 from Jeffrey Epstein |url=https://www.statepress.com/article/2019/07/former-asu-professor-lawrence-krauss-received-250000-from-jeffrey-epstein |access-date=23 October 2025 |work=The State Press |publisher=Arizona State University |date=July 12, 2019}}</ref>

Krauss defended Epstein after his 2008 guilty plea of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18. In 2011, 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 whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people...I don't feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey; I feel raised by it."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks |title=Jeffrey Epstein's society friends close ranks |last=Wolfe |first=Alexandra |date=April 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405140356/https://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-01/bill-clinton-katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks/2/ |archive-date=April 5, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists |title=Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists |last=Darby |first=Luke |date=August 19, 2019 |journal=The Guardian}}</ref>

Harvard Professor [[Steven Pinker]] said that Krauss was one of several colleagues who invited him to "salons and coffee klatsches" that included Epstein.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html |title=Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA |date=July 31, 2019 |last=Stewart |first=James B. |work=The New York Times |url-access=limited}}</ref> In August 2025, the New York Times published reports of letters given to Epstein for his 63rd birthday, including one from Krauss. Krauss stated that he did not recall the letter but attended several gatherings at Epstein's home.<ref name="Enrich 2025">{{cite web |last1=Enrich |first1=David |last2=Goldstein |first2=Matthew |last3=Silver-Greenberg |first3=Jessica |last4=Eder |first4=Steve |title=Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan Townhouse: Birthday Letters, First Edition 'Lolita' and More |website=The New York Times |date=August 5, 2025 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/jeffrey-epstein-mansion-photos.html |access-date=September 8, 2025 |url-access=limited}}</ref>

On November 12, 2025, the [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform|House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]] published additional files related to Epstein showing that Krauss responded via e-mail to Epstein, answering Epstein's joke "Let's do a men of the world conference." Krauss suggested the notional conference include [[Kevin Spacey]],  [[Bill Clinton]], [[Al Franken]] and [[Woody Allen]]. Each of these men had been accused of sexual wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/11/13/never-on-the-island-what-the-latest-epstein-files-say-about-bill-clinton/ |title='Never On The Island': What The Latest Epstein Files Say About Bill Clinton |date=November 13, 2025 |last=Ray |first=Siladitya |magazine=[[Forbes]] |access-date=November 13, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-11-12 |title=Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents |url=https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-additional-epstein-estate-documents/ |access-date=2025-11-14 |website=United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform |language=en}}</ref> In an email dated 2017, Krauss asked Epstein what to do if Krauss was accused of sexual misconduct.<ref>Nathan VanderKlippe and Adrian Morrow, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-jeffrey-epstein-files-canadian-physicist-lawrence-krauss/ Canadian physicist Lawrence Krauss sought Epstein’s advice on how to respond to sex-misconduct allegations], files show, ''The Globe and Mail'', 15 November 2025</ref>

===Allegations of sexual misconduct===
In a February 2018 article describing allegations that "range from offensive comments to groping and non-consensual sexual advances",<ref name="Scragg 2018">{{Cite news |url=http://www.statepress.com/article/2018/02/spscience-asu-professor-lawrence-krauss-accused-of-sexual-misconduct |title=ASU professor Lawrence Krauss accused of sexual misconduct |last=Scragg |first=Chris |date=February 25, 2018 |work=The State Press |publisher=Arizona State University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226042442/http://www.statepress.com/article/2018/02/spscience-asu-professor-lawrence-krauss-accused-of-sexual-misconduct |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[BuzzFeed News]]'' reported a variety of sexual misconduct claims against Krauss, including two complaints from his years at Case Western Reserve University.<ref name="Aldhous 2018">{{Cite news |last1=Aldhous |first1=Peter |last2=Ghorayshi |first2=Azeen |last3=Hughes |first3=Virginia |date=February 22, 2018 |title=Celebrity Atheist Lawrence Krauss Accused Of Sexual Misconduct For Over A Decade |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222165659/https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations |archive-date=February 22, 2018 |access-date=February 27, 2018 |work=[[BuzzFeed News]] |language=en}}</ref> Krauss responded that the article was "slanderous" and "factually incorrect".<ref name="Scragg 2018"/> In a public statement, he apologized to anyone he made feel intimidated or uncomfortable, but stated that the BuzzFeed article "ignored counter-evidence, distorted the facts and made absurd claims about [him]."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/03/07/asu-professor-lawrence-krauss-says-sex-misconduct-allegations-absurd-libelous/405134002/ |title=ASU professor Lawrence Krauss: Sex-misconduct allegations are 'absurd,' 'libelous' |last=Ryman |first=Anne |date=March 7, 2018 |website=AZcentral |access-date=August 28, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Chang 2018">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/science/lawrence-krauss-arizona-state.html |title=Arizona State Suspends Lawrence Krauss During Inquiry Over Sexual Misconduct Accusations |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |date=March 7, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308002918/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/science/lawrence-krauss-arizona-state.html |archive-date=March 8, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=August 28, 2021 |url-access=limited}}</ref> Case Western Reserve responded to the student complaint by restricting Krauss's access to campus, although by the time the sanctions began he had already left for ASU.<ref name="Aldhous 2018" />

ASU stated that they had not received complaints from faculty, staff, or students before the BuzzFeed article but subsequently began an internal investigation regarding an accusation that Krauss grabbed a woman's breast while at a convention in Australia.<ref name="Wadman 2018">{{cite journal |last=Wadman |first=Meredith |date=August 3, 2018 |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/university-finds-prominent-astrophysicist-lawrence-krauss-grabbed-woman-s-breast |title=University finds prominent astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss grabbed a woman's breast |journal=Science |doi=10.1126/science.aav0010 |url-access=limited |access-date=October 23, 2025}}</ref> Investigators interviewed two eyewitnesses, and two other witnesses who immediately spoke with the unnamed woman. The witnesses described the woman as troubled and shocked. The woman told investigators that "she did not feel victimized, felt it was a clumsy interpersonal interaction and thought she had handled it in the moment."<ref name="Wadman 2018"/> ASU found that the [[preponderance of evidence]] suggested that Krauss had violated the university's policy against sexual harassment by grabbing a woman's breast without her permission.<ref name="Searle 2018">{{cite letter |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Melanie%20Thomson%207.31.18.pdf |last=Searle |first=Mark |recipient=Dr. Melanie J. Thompson |subject=Determination of Complaint of Violation of ACD 401 |date=July 31, 2018 |publisher=Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost; Arizona State University |location=Tempe, Ariz. |via=Sciencemag.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814040101/http://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Melanie%20Thomson%207.31.18.pdf |archive-date=August 14, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.statepress.com/article/2018/08/spscience-asu-investigation-states-lawrence-krauss-groped-woman-while-on-asu-funded-trip |title=Lawrence Krauss violated ASU sexual harassment policies, investigation shows |date=August 7, 2018 |first=Kimberly |last=Rapanut |work=The State Press |publisher=Arizona State University}}</ref> As a result, Krauss was not renewed as director of the Origins Project<ref name="Shea 2018a">{{cite news |last1=Shea |first1=Parker |title=Lawrence Krauss replaced as director of The Origins Project |url=https://www.statepress.com/article/2018/08/sppolitics-lawrence-krauss-replaced-as-director-of-the-origins-project |access-date=23 October 2025 |work=The State Press |publisher=Arizona State University |date=August 2, 2018}}</ref> and the university moved its staff to a project run by planetary scientist [[Lindy Elkins-Tanton]], formally ending the Origins project.<ref name="Shea 2018b">{{cite web |url=http://www.statepress.com/article/2018/09/spscience-asu-origins-project-to-move-under-interplanetary-initiative |title=ASU's Origins Project to move under Interplanetary Initiative |last=Shea |first=Parker |work=The State Press |publisher=Arizona State University |quote=ASU announced Thursday that the Origins Project, formerly headed by Lawrence Krauss, will move underneath the University's Interplanetary Initiative and lose its name. |date=September 29, 2018 |access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref>

In response to the university determination, Krauss produced a 51-page appeal document responding to the allegations, including a counter-claim that a photo claimed to be of Krauss grabbing a woman's breast was actually showing his hand moving away from the woman.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 25, 2018 |title=Arizona State U. Physicist Offers Lengthy Rebuttal to Sexual-Misconduct Accusations |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/arizona-state-u-physicist-offers-lengthy-rebuttal-to-sexual-misconduct-accusations/ |access-date=December 26, 2024 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |language=en}}</ref>

Several organizations also canceled scheduled talks by Krauss.<ref name="Scragg 2018"/> Krauss resigned from the position of chair of the ''[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]'' Board of Sponsors when informed that its other members felt his presence was distracting "from the ability of the Bulletin to effectively carry out [its] work".<ref name="Sinclaire 2018">{{cite web |type=press release |url=https://thebulletin.org/blog/whats-new-bulletin/lawrence-krauss-resigns-bulletin-atomic-scientists'-board-sponsors |title=Lawrence Krauss resigns from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Board of Sponsors |last=Sinclaire |first=Janice |date=March 6, 2018 |publisher=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20180308094022/https://thebulletin.org/blog/whats-new-bulletin/lawrence-krauss-resigns-bulletin-atomic-scientists%E2%80%99-board-sponsors |archive-date=March 8, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite letter |url=https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/Lawrence%20Krauss%20Letter%20of%20Resignation.pdf |first=Lawrence M. |last=Krauss |recipient=Rachel Bronson |subject=Letter of resignation |date=March 6, 2018 |location=Tempe, Ariz. |via=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308055430/https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/Lawrence%20Krauss%20Letter%20of%20Resignation.pdf |archive-date=March 8, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Following the ASU investigation, Krauss was placed on paid administrative leave starting in March 2018 and was recommended for dismissal by the dean of the department. He later retired from ASU at the end of the 2018–2019 academic year.<ref name="Haag 2018">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/science/lawrence-krauss-retires-sexual-harassment.html |title=Lawrence Krauss to Retire From Arizona State After Sexual Misconduct Accusations |last=Haag |first=Matthew |work=The New York Times |date=October 22, 2018 |access-date=March 17, 2019 |url-access=limited}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
Krauss has authored or co-authored more than three hundred scientific studies<ref name="Google Scholar">{{cite web |title=Lawrence M. Krauss |website=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D_2ApacAAAAJ |access-date=November 6, 2024}}</ref> and review articles on cosmology and theoretical physics.

===Books===
* ''[[The Fifth Essence]]'' (1989), [[Basic Books]], {{ISBN|978-0465023752}}
* ''[[Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed]]'' (1994), [[Basic Books]], {{ISBN|0-465-02367-3}}
* ''[[The Physics of Star Trek]]'' (1996), [[Basic Books]], {{ISBN|0-465-00559-4}}
* ''[[Beyond Star Trek|Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions to the End of Time]]'' (1998), [[HarperCollins]], {{ISBN|978-0060977573}}
* ''[[Quintessence: The Search for Missing Mass in the Universe]]'' (2000), [[Basic Books]], {{ISBN|0-465-03741-0}}
* ''[[Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond]]'' (2001), [[Little, Brown and Company]], {{ISBN|0-316-18309-1}}
* ''[[Hiding in the Mirror|Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond]]'' (2005), [[Viking Press]], {{ISBN|0-670-03395-2}}
* ''[[Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science]]'' (2011), [[James Atlas|Atlas & Company]] {{ISBN|978-0-393-06471-1}}
* ''[[A Universe from Nothing|A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing]]'' (2012), [[Atria Books]], {{ISBN|978-1-4516-2445-8}} <ref name="ASU Publications">{{cite web |title=Lawrence Krauss |url=http://genesis1.asu.edu/Publications.htm |publisher=Arizona State University |access-date=August 14, 2011}}</ref>
* ''[[The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here?]]'' (2017), [[Atria Books]], {{ISBN|978-1-4767-7761-0}}
* ''The Physics of Climate Change'' (2021), [[Post Hill Press]], {{ISBN|978-1642938166}}
* ''The Known Unknowns'' (2023), [[Head of Zeus]]/Apollo, {{ISBN|978-1801100649}}
* ''The Edge of Knowledge'' (2023), [[Post Hill Press]], {{ISBN|978-1637588567 }}
* ''The War on Science'' (2025), [[Post Hill Press]], {{ISBN|979-8888457566}}

====Contributor====
* ''100 Things to Do Before You Die (plus a few to do afterwards)''. 2004. [[Profile Books]]. {{ISBN|978-1861979254}}
* ''The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue?'' 2009. [[Yale Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0300152999}}

===Articles===
* {{cite web <!--|last=Krauss |first=Lawrence M.--> |title=The Energy of Empty Space that Isn't Zero |website=Edge.org |date=July 5, 2006 |url=https://www.edge.org/conversation/lawrence_m_krauss-the-energy-of-empty-space-that-isnt-zero}}
* "A dark future for cosmology". 2007. ''Physics World''.
* "The End of Cosmology". 2008. ''Scientific American''. {{issn|0036-8733}}
* "The return of a static universe and the end of cosmology". 2008. ''International Journal of Modern Physics''.
* "Late time behavior of false vacuum decay: Possible implications for cosmology and metastable inflating states". 2008. ''Physical Review Letters''.
* "The Cosmological Constant is Back", with M. S. Turner, Gen.Rel.Grav.27:1137–1144, 1995
* {{cite magazine <!--|last=Krauss |first=Lawrence M.--> |date=June 2010 |title=Why I love neutrinos |magazine=Scientific American |volume=302 |issue=6 |page=19 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0610-34 |pmid=20521478 |bibcode=2010SciAm.302f..34K |issn=0036-8733}}

== Media ==

===Documentary films===
* ''[[The Unbelievers]]'' (2013)
* ''[[The Principle]]'' (2014)
* {{YouTube|Yb5ivvcTvRQ|''The Choice is Ours''}} (2016)
* ''[[Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World]]'' (2016)
* ''[[The Farthest]]'' (2017)

===Television===
* ''[[How the Universe Works]]'' (2010–2018)

===Films===
* ''[[London Fields (2014 film)|London Fields]]'' (2015) (cameo)<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview with Lawrence Krauss |date=June 7, 2014 |url=http://geeksguideshow.com/2014/06/07/ggg111-lawrence-krauss/ |access-date=June 19, 2014}}</ref>
* ''[[Salt and Fire]]'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |title=Salt and Fire (2016) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4441150/ |website=IMDB |access-date=March 18, 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Intersect (2020 film)|Intersect]]'' (2020) <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4205718/fullcredits |title=Intersect (2020) |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

== Awards ==
[[File:Lawrence Krauss Dawkins Award 1.jpg|thumb|Krauss is given the [[Richard Dawkins Award]] by Mark W. Gura and Melissa Pugh of [[Atheist Alliance of America]] at the Reason Rally 2016.]]
* [[Gravity Research Foundation]] First Prize Award in the 1984 Essay Competition<ref name="GRF Award">{{cite web |title=Award Essays by Year |url=https://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/year |publisher=Gravity Research Foundation |location=Wellesley, Mass. |access-date=23 October 2025 |date=n.d.}}</ref>
* [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]]'s Award for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology (2000)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaas.org/page/aaas-public-engagement-science-award-recipients |title=AAAS Public Engagement with Science Award Recipients |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |date=n.d. |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize]] (2001)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/lilienfeld.cfm |title=Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize |website=www.aps.org |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Gemant Award]] (2001)<ref name="AIP Awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.aip.org/aip/awards-and-prizes/gemant/winners |title=Gemant Award Winners |website=www.aip.org |publisher=American Institute of Physics |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[American Institute of Physics]] Science Writing Award (2002)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/2005/october/elections.html |title=Elections |website=www.aps.org |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Oersted Medal]] (2003)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aapt.org/programs/awards/oersted.cfm |title=The Oersted Medal |website=www.aapt.org |publisher=American Association of Physics Teachers |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[American Physical Society]] [[Joseph A. Burton Forum Award]] (2005)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/awards/burton.cfm |title=Joseph A. Burton Forum Award |website=www.aps.org |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Center for Inquiry]] World Congress Science in the Public Interest Award (2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csicop.org/si/show/randi_krauss_kurtz_honored_with_major_awards/ |title=Randi, Krauss, Kurtz Honored with Major Awards |website=www.csicop.org |publisher=The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Helen Sawyer Hogg]] Prize of the [[Royal Astronomical Society of Canada]] and the Astronomical Society of Canada (2009)<ref name="Krauss CV"/>
* ''[[Physics World]]'' Book of the Year, 2011<ref name="Dacey 2011">{{cite magazine |last1=Dacey |first1=James |last2=Durrani |first2=Matin |last3=Harris |first3=Margaret |title=''Physics World''{{'}}s 2011 Books of the Year |magazine=Physics World |issn=0953-8585 |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/physics-worlds-2011-books-of-the-year/ |access-date=23 October 2025 |date=19 December 2011}}</ref>
* [[National Science Board]] 2012 Public Service Award and Medal (2012)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=123633 |title=The National Science Board Announces Recipient of the 2012 Public Service Award |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=March 31, 2014}}</ref>
* Elected as Laureate of the [[International Academy of Humanism]] (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php/3258 |title=International Academy of Humanism |publisher=Council for Secular Humanism; Center for Inquiry |date=n.d. |access-date=March 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180330192331/https://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php/3258 |archive-date=March 30, 2018 |url-status=unfit}}</ref>
* [[Gravity Research Foundation]] First Prize Award in the 2014 Essay Competition<ref name="GRF Award"/>
* Humanist of the Year, 2015, [[American Humanist Association]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://asunews.asu.edu/20141204-krauss-humanist-of-the-year |title=Krauss named Humanist of the Year |work=ASU News |date=December 4, 2014}}</ref> (revoked in 2018 after allegations of sexual misconduct)<ref>{{cite press release |last=Henry |first=Sarah |date=October 25, 2018 |publisher=American Humanist Association |title=AHA Board of Directors Revokes Lawrence Krauss Humanist of the Year Award |url=https://americanhumanist.org/press-releases/aha-board-of-directors-revokes-lawrence-krauss-humanist-of-the-year-award/ |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Seering |first=Lauryn |title=Lawrence Krauss's 2016 National Convention Speech - Freedom From Religion Foundation |url=https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/28522-lawrence-krauss-s-2016-national-convention-speech |access-date=November 21, 2023 |website=ffrf.org |date=January 27, 2017 |language=en-gb}}</ref>
* [[Richard Dawkins Award]] 2016, [[Atheist Alliance of America]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mark.Gura |title=Dr. Lawrence Krauss Receives the 2016 Richard Dawkins Award |url=https://www.atheistallianceamerica.org/the-richard-dawkins-award/dr-lawrence-krauss-receives-the-richard-dawkins-award/ |access-date=November 21, 2023 |website=Atheist Alliance of America |language=en-US}}</ref>

== References ==
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* [http://thebulletin.org/bio/lawrence-m-krauss-0 Articles] on the ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists''
* [http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lawrence-krauss Articles] on ''The New Yorker''
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpkD8o4SPsc Lawrence Krauss interviewed by Bill Ludlow, February 26, 2019]
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* {{cite web |title=The Origins Channel with Lawrence Krauss |website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/@TheOriginsPodcast/about |postscript=; YouTube channel started in 2019}}

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