David Kaiser
- For the historian and professor at the Naval War College, see David E. Kaiser.
David Kaiser is an American physicist and historian of science. He is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and department head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's program in Science, Technology, and Society. He is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics.[1][2]
He 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.[1]
Kaiser completed his AB in physics at Dartmouth College (1993), and obtained two PhDs from Harvard University, one in physics (1997) and one in the history of science (2000).[1]
Works
Reviews
- Todd Wilkinson (July 19, 2011). "How the Hippies Saved Physics, by David Kaiser". The Christian Science Monitor. http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2011/0719/How-the-Hippies-Saved-Physics-by-David-Kaiser.
- Wisnioski, Matthew. "Let's Be Fysiksists Again", Science, vol 332, issue 6037, 24 June 2011.
- Johnson, George. "What Physics Owes the Counterculture", The New York Times, June 17, 2011.
Notes
Further reading
- "How the Hippies Saved Physics (Excerpt)", Scientific American, June 27, 2011.
- Gusterson, Hugh. "Physics: Quantum outsiders", Nature, 476, 278–279, August 18, 2011.
- Kaiser, David. "Lecture: How the Hippies Saved Physics", WGBH PBS, April 28, 2010.
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