Protected: David Kaiser

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also recently served as an inaugural associate dean for MIT’s new cross-disciplinary initiative on Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing and has continued his role as editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access MIT Case Studies Series on Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/). Kaiser completed Ph.D.’s in theoretical physics and in the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of nine books on the history of modern science, including, most recently, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (2020).

His historical scholarship has been honored with the Pfizer Prize and the Davis Prize from the History of Science Society, while his physics research has received the LeRoy Apker Award from the American Physical Society, as well as election as Fellow of the APS. Kaiser has also received MIT’s highest honors for excellence in teaching. His work has been featured in such venues as Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker magazine. His group’s 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 (2019).