David Kaiser

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. He is the author of several award-winning books about modern physics, including How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (2011) and Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (2020). A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Kaiser has received MIT’s highest honors for excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate-student levels. A frequent contributor to National Public Radio and PBS NOVA television documentaries, his work has also been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker magazine.

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