David Kaiser
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3630105 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Kaiser |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Kaiser |
| ASSINATURA | KAISER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Naval War College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5054-6744 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Bed bug infestations
Findings reinforce the significant social inequalities in exposure to bed bugs and contribute to growing evidence that bed bug exposure is a risk factor for psychological symptoms. Coordinated, intersectoral actions that are attentive to social justice issues are needed to monitor and control bed bug infestations
Towards a fair, reliable, and practical verification framework for Blue Carbon-based CDR
While the (re-)establishment of Blue Carbon Ecosystems (BCE) is seen as an important tool to mitigate climate change, the credibility of such nature-based solutions has been marred by recent revelations ranging from weak accounting to malpractice. In light of this, there is a clear need to develop monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems towards the reliable, practical, and accurate accounting of additional and durable carbon dioxide …
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Improving attribution of extreme heat deaths through interagency cooperation
Attributing individual deaths to extreme heat events (EHE) in Canada and elsewhere is important for understanding the risk factors, protective interventions, and burden of mortality associated with climate change. However, there is currently no single mechanism for identifying individual deaths due to EHE and different agencies have taken different approaches, including (1) vital statistics coding based on medical certificates of death, (2) proba…
Negotiating Safety and Wellbeing
Making sense of what exactly public health does
The Montreal heat response plan
Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics
Although plastic is ubiquitous in marine systems, our current knowledge of transport mechanisms is limited. Much of the plastic entering the ocean sinks; this is intuitively obvious for polymers such as polystyrene (PS), which have a greater density than seawater, but lower density polymers like polyethylene (PE) also occur in sediments. Biofouling can cause large plastic objects to sink, but this phenomenon has not been described for microplasti…
Groovy Science
Groovy Science
Sleep Disturbance from Road Traffic, Railways, Airplanes and from Total Environmental Noise Levels in Montreal
The objective of our study was to measure the impact of transportation-related noise and total environmental noise on sleep disturbance for the residents of Montreal, Canada. A telephone-based survey on noise-related sleep disturbance among 4336 persons aged 18 years and over was conducted. LNight for each study participant was estimated using a land use regression (LUR) model. Distance of the respondent's residence to the nearest transportation …
How Postmodern Historians Have Helped Cripple the American Left
The changes that have occurred in the humanities in our colleges and universities over the last thirty years or so—essentially, the era of baby boomer supremacy—are generally viewed as coming from the left side of the political spectrum. That is natural enough. The vast majority of humanities professors vote for Democratic candidates and support causes such as feminism, homosexual rights, affirmative action, and environmental activism, which we a…
Vietnam's Second Front
Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas
Historians of recent science face a daunting challenge of scale. Local case studies—our principal means of interrogating past scientific practices—fail to capture the sweep and texture of some of the most dramatic changes in scientific life since World War II. During that period, most facets of research grew exponentially, from numbers of practitioners to numbers of research articles published in any given specialty. The explosive growth placed u…
A Tale of Two Textbooks
Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful physics books, each published in the mid 1970s, whose production, marketing, and adoption reveal some of the slippage between such categories as textb…
Back to Clausewitz
Hew Strachan, Clausewitz's On War, A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. Pp.194 and notes. $20.95/£14.09, HB. ISBN 0-871-13956-1. Antulio J. Echevarria II, Clausewitz and Contemporar
The Road to Dallas
The assassination of President Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S. government's campaign against organized crime; and the furtive quest of two administrations to eliminate Castro
Whose Mass is it Anyway? Particle Cosmology and the Objects of Theory
Physicists in different branches of the discipline were puzzled by the problem of mass during the 1950s and 1960s: why do objects have mass? Around the same time, yet working independently, specialists in gravitational studies and in particle theory proposed that mass might arise due to objects’ interactions with a new (and as yet undetected) field. Although the questions they posed and even the answers they provided shared several similarities -…
The Physics of Spin
David Kaiser The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s NAZI RACE SCIENCE, STALINIST DENU NCIATIONS OF GENETICS: THE tw en tieth century provided no shortage of examples of the power of politics to corrupt science. Recoiling in horror from such perversions, m any scholars argued w ith great fervor half a century ago that science was—or should be—inherently apolitical. Others insisted w ith equal vehem ence th at th…
Drawing Theories Apart
The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists During the Early Cold War
During the early years of the Cold War, a formulaic depiction emerged in the United States linking one group of scientists-theoretical physicists-with "atomic secrets," whose possession would supposedly allow other nations to build their own nuclear weapons. Scrutiny narrowed quickly around theoretical physicists, as reporters, senators, and federal judges alike asserted that theorists were inherently a breed apart, more susceptible than any othe…
Training and the Generalist's Vision in the History of Science
Commentators have often complained about specialization in the history of science. This essay discusses recent intellectual trends within our discipline in the light of significant changes in graduate training: both a relatively recent consensus as to the types of sources that are appropriate to analyze in a dissertation and the tremendous growth in the number of new dissertations completed each year in our field. It suggests that this kind of fo…
Spreading the Tools of Theory
Historians and sociologists have highlighted the importance of skills, local practices and material culture in their studies of experimental sciences. This paper argues that the acquisition and transfer of skills in theoretical sciences should be understood in similar terms. Using the example of Feynman diagrams - first introduced by the US theoretical physicist Richard Feynman in 1948 as an aid for making certain kinds of calculations - we study…
The Postwar Suburbanization of American Physics
Nuclear Democracy
The influential Berkeley theoretical physicist Geoffrey Chew renounced the reigning approach to the study of subatomic particles in the early 1960s. The standard approach relied on a rigid division between elementary and composite particles. Partly on the basis of his new interpretation of Feynman diagrams, Chew called instead for a "nuclear democracy" that would erase this division, treating all nuclear particles on an equal footing. In developi…
The Postwar Suburbanization of American Physics
Nuclear Democracy
The influential Berkeley theoretical physicist Geoffrey Chew renounced the reigning approach to the study of subatomic particles in the early 1960s. The standard approach relied on a rigid division between elementary and composite particles. Partly on the basis of his new interpretation of Feynman diagrams, Chew called instead for a "nuclear democracy" that would erase this division, treating all nuclear particles on an equal footing. In developi…
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Training and the Generalist's Vision in the History of Science
Commentators have often complained about specialization in the history of science. This essay discusses recent intellectual trends within our discipline in the light of significant changes in graduate training: both a relatively recent consensus as to the types of sources that are appropriate to analyze in a dissertation and the tremendous growth in the number of new dissertations completed each year in our field. It suggests that this kind of fo…
Stick-Figure Realism
Research Article| April 01 2000 Stick-Figure Realism: Conventions, Reification, and the Persistence of Feynman Diagrams, 1948-1964 David Kaiser David Kaiser Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 49–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902893 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Ico…
Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas
Historians of recent science face a daunting challenge of scale. Local case studies—our principal means of interrogating past scientific practices—fail to capture the sweep and texture of some of the most dramatic changes in scientific life since World War II. During that period, most facets of research grew exponentially, from numbers of practitioners to numbers of research articles published in any given specialty. The explosive growth placed u…
The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists During the Early Cold War
During the early years of the Cold War, a formulaic depiction emerged in the United States linking one group of scientists-theoretical physicists-with "atomic secrets," whose possession would supposedly allow other nations to build their own nuclear weapons. Scrutiny narrowed quickly around theoretical physicists, as reporters, senators, and federal judges alike asserted that theorists were inherently a breed apart, more susceptible than any othe…
Making sense of what exactly public health does
Spreading the Tools of Theory
Historians and sociologists have highlighted the importance of skills, local practices and material culture in their studies of experimental sciences. This paper argues that the acquisition and transfer of skills in theoretical sciences should be understood in similar terms. Using the example of Feynman diagrams - first introduced by the US theoretical physicist Richard Feynman in 1948 as an aid for making certain kinds of calculations - we study…
A Mannheim for All Seasons
The ArgumentDavid Bloor often wrote that Karl Mannheim had "stopped short" in his sociology of knowledge, lacking the nerve to consider the natural sciences sociologically. While this assessment runs counter to Mannheim's own work, which responded in quite specific ways both to an encroaching "modernity" and a looming fascism, Bloor's depiction becomes clearer when considered in the light of his principal introduction to Mannheim's work - a serie…
The Montreal heat response plan
A Tale of Two Textbooks
Though the notion of a scientific textbook has been around for almost three centuries, the category has hardly been stable. The plasticity of the textbook genre may be illustrated by recent variations as well as long-term trends. In this brief essay I examine two idiosyncratic but highly successful physics books, each published in the mid 1970s, whose production, marketing, and adoption reveal some of the slippage between such categories as textb…
American Tragedy
It sounds like a cliché, but it is true: democracy, to fulfill its promise as the best of human traditions, requires enlightened leadership. According to David Kaiser, the generation of Americans who came of age in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s felt blessed in that regard. By shepherding the battered national economy out of the Great Depression and leading the Grand Alliance to resounding victory over fascism, the government in Washington had pro…
Kennedy's Wars
More roots of complementarity
Whose Mass is it Anyway? Particle Cosmology and the Objects of Theory
Physicists in different branches of the discipline were puzzled by the problem of mass during the 1950s and 1960s: why do objects have mass? Around the same time, yet working independently, specialists in gravitational studies and in particle theory proposed that mass might arise due to objects’ interactions with a new (and as yet undetected) field. Although the questions they posed and even the answers they provided shared several similarities -…
Bringing the human actors back on stage
In concluding his ‘Autobiographical notes’, Albert Einstein explained that the purpose of his exposition was to ‘show the reader how the efforts of a life hang together and why they have led to expectations of a definite form’. Einstein's remarks tell of a coherence between personal ‘strivings and searchings’ and scientific activity, which has all but vanished in the midst of the current trend of social constructivism in history of science. As Na…
Debate Germany, "Domestic Crisis" and War in 1939
Journal Article DEBATE GERMANY, “DOMESTIC CRISIS” AND WAR IN 1939 Get access David Kaiser David Kaiser Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 122, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 200–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/122.1.200 Published: 01 February 1989
Back to Clausewitz
Hew Strachan, Clausewitz's On War, A Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. Pp.194 and notes. $20.95/£14.09, HB. ISBN 0-871-13956-1. Antulio J. Echevarria II, Clausewitz and Contemporar
The Physics of Spin
David Kaiser The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s NAZI RACE SCIENCE, STALINIST DENU NCIATIONS OF GENETICS: THE tw en tieth century provided no shortage of examples of the power of politics to corrupt science. Recoiling in horror from such perversions, m any scholars argued w ith great fervor half a century ago that science was—or should be—inherently apolitical. Others insisted w ith equal vehem ence th at th…
Lessons of the history of nationalism
Politics and War
Anglo-French Relations, 1934-1936 . Nicholas Rostow
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Debate Germany, "Domestic Crisis" and War in 1939
Journal Article DEBATE GERMANY, “DOMESTIC CRISIS” AND WAR IN 1939 Get access David Kaiser David Kaiser Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 122, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 200–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/122.1.200 Published: 01 February 1989
Politics and War
More roots of complementarity
Politics and War
Krieg zur Friedenssicherung
Lessons of the history of nationalism
Bringing the human actors back on stage
In concluding his ‘Autobiographical notes’, Albert Einstein explained that the purpose of his exposition was to ‘show the reader how the efforts of a life hang together and why they have led to expectations of a definite form’. Einstein's remarks tell of a coherence between personal ‘strivings and searchings’ and scientific activity, which has all but vanished in the midst of the current trend of social constructivism in history of science. As Na…
Eddington's Search for a Fundamental Theory
A ψ is just a ψ? Pedagogy, Practice, and the Reconstitution of General Relativity, 1942–1975
A Mannheim for All Seasons
The ArgumentDavid Bloor often wrote that Karl Mannheim had "stopped short" in his sociology of knowledge, lacking the nerve to consider the natural sciences sociologically. While this assessment runs counter to Mannheim's own work, which responded in quite specific ways both to an encroaching "modernity" and a looming fascism, Bloor's depiction becomes clearer when considered in the light of his principal introduction to Mannheim's work - a serie…
American Tragedy
My war with the AHA
F or the past twenty-three years I have been a practicing historian in three different academic departments, and during that time I have had an intermittent, generally difficult relationship with my professional organization, the American Historical Association. Were this story merely of personal interest I would keep it to myself, but I am persuaded that it is not. My various dealings with the AHA, which have now come to an end, illustrate the d…
Kennedy's Wars
Stick-Figure Realism
Research Article| April 01 2000 Stick-Figure Realism: Conventions, Reification, and the Persistence of Feynman Diagrams, 1948-1964 David Kaiser David Kaiser Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2000) 70: 49–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902893 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Ico…
A Tale of Two Continents
American Tragedy
A matter of quotes
American Tragedy
It sounds like a cliché, but it is true: democracy, to fulfill its promise as the best of human traditions, requires enlightened leadership. According to David Kaiser, the generation of Americans who came of age in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s felt blessed in that regard. By shepherding the battered national economy out of the Great Depression and leading the Grand Alliance to resounding victory over fascism, the government in Washington had pro…
The Particle Century. Gordon Fraser
Richard Feynman
Nuclear Democracy
The influential Berkeley theoretical physicist Geoffrey Chew renounced the reigning approach to the study of subatomic particles in the early 1960s. The standard approach relied on a rigid division between elementary and composite particles. Partly on the basis of his new interpretation of Feynman diagrams, Chew called instead for a "nuclear democracy" that would erase this division, treating all nuclear particles on an equal footing. In developi…
Spreading the Tools of Theory
Historians and sociologists have highlighted the importance of skills, local practices and material culture in their studies of experimental sciences. This paper argues that the acquisition and transfer of skills in theoretical sciences should be understood in similar terms. Using the example of Feynman diagrams - first introduced by the US theoretical physicist Richard Feynman in 1948 as an aid for making certain kinds of calculations - we study…
The Postwar Suburbanization of American Physics
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