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Occupation Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parents Hannah Greeley, Philip Mayer Kaiser Siblings Charles Kaiser, Robert Kaiser Grandparents Moishe Bear Kaiser, Tema Kaiser Education Dartmouth College, Harvard University People also search for David E. Kaiser, Philip Mayer Kaiser, Charles Kaiser, Robert Kaiser, Moishe Bear Kaiser, Tema Kaiser Books How the Hippies Saved Ph, The Road to Dallas, American Tragedy, Drawing Theories Apart, Pedagogy and the Practice o | ||
Interview with mit professor david kaiser how the hippies saved physics
David I. Kaiser is an American physicist and historian of science. He is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), head of its Science, Technology, and Society program, and senior lecturer in the department of physics.
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- Interview with mit professor david kaiser how the hippies saved physics
- David kaiser on cnn november 22 2013 talking about the kennedy presidency
- Education
- Books
- References
Kaiser is the author or editor of several books on the history of science, including Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (2005), and How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (2011). He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. In March 2012 he was awarded the MacVicar fellowship, a prestigious MIT undergraduate teaching award.
David kaiser on cnn november 22 2013 talking about the kennedy presidency
Education
Kaiser completed his AB in physics at Dartmouth College in 1993. He obtained two PhDs from Harvard University. The first was in physics in 1997 for a thesis entitled "Post-Inflation Reheating in an Expanding Universe," the second in the history of science in 2000 for a thesis on "Making Theory: Producing Physics and Physicists in Postwar America."