David Kaiser

HistorianCambridge, MA

Wendover, UT

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Listen to David Kaiser’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. David Kaiser is the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of the award winning book "Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics," and more recently published "How Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival."

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