# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-kaiser
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:48:00.094Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-kaiser"
name: "David Kaiser"
slug: "david-kaiser"
description: "David I. Kaiser is an American physicist and historian of science. He is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a full professor in MIT's department of physics. He also served as an inaugural associate dean for MIT's cross-disciplinary program in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/160113_SHASS_ABO_KAISER_029.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1971-02-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.222212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديفيد كايزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kaiser_(Wissenschaftshistoriker)"
    title: "David Kaiser (Wissenschaftshistoriker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kaiser_(physicist)"
    title: "David Kaiser (physicist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید کایزر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kaiser_(physicien)"
    title: "David Kaiser (physicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_%EC%B9%B4%EC%9D%B4%EC%A0%80"
    title: "데이비드 카이저"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Kaiser"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump