Forman, Paul. 1986. "The First Atomic Clock Program: NBS, 1947-1954." Proceedings of the 17th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Applications and Planning Meeting, 1985, 12, (3-6) 1–17.
Forman, Paul. 1991. "Review of Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy and the Rise of Nuclear Physics by Finn Aaserud." Physics Today, 44, (11) 93–94. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2810326.
Forman, Paul. 1995. [Book review] "The Quantum Generation - Highlights and Tragedies of the Golden-Age of Physics - Ryutovakemoklidze, M." Science, 267, (5205), 1844–1845. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.267.5205.1844.b.
Forman, Paul. 1995. "'Swords into ploughshares': breaking new ground with radar hardware and technique in physical research after World War II." Reviews of Modern Physics, 67 397–455. https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.67.397.
Forman, Paul. 1998. "Molecular beam measurements of nuclear moments before magnetic resonance: I.I. Rabi and deflecting magnets to 1938. Part I." Annals of Science, 55 111–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00033799800200141.
Forman, Paul. 2007. "How Lewis Mumford saw science, and art, and himself." Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 38, (2) 271–336. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsps.2007.37.2.271.
Forman, Paul. 2002. "Recent science: late-modern and post-modern." In Science bought and sold: rethinking the economics of science. Mirowski, Philip and Sent, E. -M, editors. 109–148. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Forman, Paul. 1999. "Atomic clock based upon absorption of microwaves in ammonia, constructed at U.S. National Bureau of Standards (1948-49)." Scientific Instrument Society Bulletin, (63) 18–19.
Forman, Paul. 1999. "Electromagnetic cavity in which nuclear magnetic resonance was first observed in condensed matter (1945)." Scientific Instrument Society Bulletin, (63) 16–17.
Forman, Paul. 2002. "What the past tells us about the future of science." In La ciencia y la tecnologia ante el tercer. Sánchez Ron, José Manuel, editor. 27–37. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal España Nuevo Milenio.
Forman, Paul. 2009. [Book review] "Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science." Isis, 100, (1), 180–181. https://doi.org/10.1086/599679.
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Extent:
13 Cubic feet (15 boxes, 1 map-folder)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
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Provenance:
Materials were collected by curator Paul Forman as he researched atomic clocks and then transfered to the Archives Center in 2011.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Atomic Clocks Reference Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Atomic Clocks Reference Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Atomic Clocks Reference Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Atomic Clocks Reference Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
