He completed Ph.D.s in physics and the history of science at Harvard University. Kaiser is author of the award-winning book, 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. His latest book, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival, will be published this June by W.W. Norton. Honors include awards from the American Physical Society, the History of Science Society, the British Society for the History of Science, and MIT.