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David Kaiser

David Kaiser

Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT, historian of modern physics and Cold War science.

Sep 22, 2026

2:00
Why was that, and how has that worked out for us?
2:03
That's right.
2:03
So they didn't decide very rapidly.
2:05
And again, as people might know, there were some departments that we would now associate with SAS that preexisted this.
2:11
Economics, for example, had been taught at MIT as its own department from well before them.
2:16
But there was this famous, famous for us, famous on campus, something called the Lewis Report, which you'll hear about over and over again this year, I'm sure.
2:23
And it was actually, I think, a three-year effort.

24 MINS LATER

26:30
Dave, what can we expect from the conference, which is coming up in the very near future? Very near

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