David Kaiser

David Kaiser
Nationality	American
Education	AB (physics) Dartmouth College, 1993 PhD (physics) Harvard University, 1997 PhD (history of science) Harvard University, 2000
Occupation	Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Website	MIT faculty page

David 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.

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.

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."

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