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'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.…
Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment
- P. Forman
- Sociology
- 1971
Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960
- P. Forman
- Physics
- 1987
The Primacy of Science in Modernity, of Technology in Postmodernity, and of Ideology in the History of Technology
- P. Forman
- Art
- 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…
:The Measurement of Time: Time, Frequency, and the Atomic Clock
- P. Forman
- Education
- 2002
Have downtimes? Read the measurement of time time frequency and the atomic clock writer by Why? A best seller publication worldwide with great worth and also content is incorporated with fascinating…
Atomichron®: The atomic clock from concept to commercial product
- P. Forman
- PhysicsProceedings of the IEEE
- 1 July 1985
The first half of this paper (Sections I-III) gives an overview of the development of atomic clocks from the earliest suggestions that atoms could provide superlative frequency and time standards to…
Sources for History of Quantum Physics
- T. Kuhn, J. Heilbron, P. Forman, L. Allen, R. Lindsay
- Physics
- 1 November 1968
On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity
- P. Forman
- Art, PhilosophyOsiris
- 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…
Inventing the Maser in Postwar America
- P. Forman
- PhysicsOsiris
- 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…
``Swords into ploughshares``: Breaking new ground with radar hardware and technique in physical research after World War II
- P. Forman
- Physics
- 1 April 1995
A survey is offered of applications to fundamental physical research, in the years immediately following World War II, of the instrumentalities developed for radar during that war. Attention is given…
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