Content by David Kaiser, PhD

David Kaiser, PhD is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT, where he also served as Inaugural Associate Dean for MIT’s new cross-disciplinary program on social and ethical responsibilities of computing. He is the author of several award-winning books about modern physics, including how The Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival and Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World. A fellow of the American Physical Society, David Kaiser has received MIT’s highest awards for excellence in teaching. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker magazine. His group’s recent efforts to conduct a cosmic bell test of quantum entanglement, together with Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger, were featured in the documentary film Einstein’s Quantum Riddle, which premiered on PBS in 2019.