Nathan Myhrvold Biography

Nathan Myhrvold founded Intellectual Ventures after retiring as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corporation for 14 years. Nathan founded Microsoft Research and numerous technology groups and has been an avid inventor. He has been awarded hundreds of patents and has hundreds of patents pending. Before joining Microsoft Nathan was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University and he worked with Professor Stephen Hawking. He earned a doctorate in theoretical and mathematical physics and a master's degree in mathematical economics from Princeton University and he also has a master's degree in geophysics and space physics and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from UCLA.His recent accomplishments include creating and co-authoring the award-winning cookbook Modernist Cuisine (2011) and Modernist Cuisine at Home (2012) which takes modernist cooking techniques and makes them more accessible to the home cook.

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