David Kaiser
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 a full professor 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. 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."