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- Influence
'Subtle Is the Lord ...': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
For withdrawing a bundle of pipes from a heat exchanger and for inserting such bundle the required tractive forces should be exerted on the bundle in a direction in line therewith by means of a key.… Expand
Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment
- P. Forman
- Sociology
- 1971
The Primacy of Science in Modernity, of Technology in Postmodernity, and of Ideology in the History of Technology
- P. Forman
- Sociology
- 1 March 2007
The abrupt reversal of culturally ascribed primacy in the science–technology relationship—namely, from the primacy of science relative to technology prior to circa 1980, to the primacy of technology… Expand
On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity
- P. Forman
- Sociology
- Osiris
- 1 January 2012
This article continues and extends my previous efforts to characterize modernity and to map the change in state of mind constituting the transition to postmodernity. Here I make a case for marking… Expand
11 Vehicle-borne threats and the principles of hostile vehicle mitigation
- P. Forman, Dorian Evans, Gary Heward
- Business
- 2009
Inventing the Maser in Postwar America
- P. Forman
- History
- Osiris
- 1 January 1992
"A UNIQUE 'ATOMIC CLOCK' has just been perfected at Columbia Unit1versity" by Charles H. Townes and his coworkers. So read a press release that the Columbia University News Office distributed "to… Expand
National Military Establishments and the Advancement of Science and Technology
- P. Forman, J. M. S. Ron, W. Scaife
- Engineering, Political Science
- 30 November 2001
Historical studies of the role of military agencies and considerations of military power in the promotion of science and technology have burgeoned since the early 1980s. Initially, such studies… Expand