David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
Professor
Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Cambridge, Massachusetts
dikaiser@mit.edu
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(617) 452-3173
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Bio/Research
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Department Head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Senior Lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. He completed an A.B. in physics at Dartmouth College and Ph.D.s in physics and the history of science at...
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Bio/Research
David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Department Head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a Senior Lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. He completed an A.B. in physics at Dartmouth College and Ph.D.s in physics and the history of science at Harvard University. Kaiser's historical research focuses on the development of physics in the United States during the Cold War, looking at how the discipline has evolved at the intersection of politics, culture, and the changing shape of higher education.
Kaiser is author of the award-winning book, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (University of Chicago Press, 2005), which traces how Richard Feynman's idiosyncratic approach to quantum physics entered the mainstream. His latest book, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (W. W. Norton, 2011), charts the early history of Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement.
Kaiser's work has been featured in such venues as Nature, Science, and Scientific American; the New York Times, Harper's, the Huffington Post, and the London Review of Books; and on National Public Radio, BBC Radio, and NOVA television programs.
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Kaiser is author of the award-winning book, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (University of Chicago Press, 2005), which traces how Richard Feynman's idiosyncratic approach to quantum physics entered the mainstream. His latest book, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (W. W. Norton, 2011), charts the early history of Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement.
Kaiser's work has been featured in such venues as Nature, Science, and Scientific American; the New York Times, Harper's, the Huffington Post, and the London Review of Books; and on National Public Radio, BBC Radio, and NOVA television programs.
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