David E. Kaiser

professor, strategy and policy, Naval War College

David Kaiser is an associate professor in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a lecturer in MIT's Department of Physics. He completed an A.B. in physics (1993) at Dartmouth College, and Ph.D.s in physics (1997) and the history of science (2000) at Harvard University. Kaiser's historical research focuses on the development of physics in the United States during the Cold War, looking at how the discipline has evolved at the intersection of politics, culture, and the changing shape of higher education. His physics research focuses on early-universe cosmology, working at the interface of particle physics and gravitation. Kaiser is author of the award-winning *Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics* (2005), which traces how Richard Feynman's idiosyncratic approach to quantum physics entered the mainstream. He has also edited several books on the history of modern physical sciences, including, most recently, *Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives* (2005). Kaiser is author of the award-winning *Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics* (2005), which traces how Richard Feynman's idiosyncratic approach to quantum physics entered the mainstream. He has also edited several books on the history of modern physical sciences, including, most recently, *Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives* (2005).