Paul Forman
Biographic Data
| ID | 981985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Forman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Forman |
| SIGNATURE | FORMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity
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 that transition by the dramatic fall, between the early 1960s and the early 1970s, in the cultural valuation of professions and of disciplines. I show that four culturally presupposed values—proceduralism, disinterestedness, autonomy, and solidarity—alo…
(Re)cognizing Postmodernity: Helps for Historians – of Science Especially
(An)erkennung der Postmodernität: Hilfen für Historiker – und Historiker der Wissenschaften im Besonderen. Ausgehend von einer Unterscheidung zwischen der Postmodernit?t als einer von der Modernit?t durch eine breite Umkehr ihrer kulturellen Grundannahmen abgegrenzten historischen Ära und dem Postmodernismus – einer von den selbsternannten Postmodernisten in der frühen Postmodernität angenommenen intellektuellen Attitüde – thematisiert der Aufsat…
The Primacy of Science in Modernity, of Technology in Postmodernity, and of Ideology in the History of Technology
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 relative to science since about that date—is proposed as a demarcator of postmodernity from modernity: modernity is when 'science' could, and often did, denote technology too; postmodernity is when science is subsumed under technology. In support of t…
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb.
Inventing the Maser in Postwar America
Sarton Medal Citation
Independence, Not Transcendence, for the Historian of Science
Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960
Research Article| January 01 1987 Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960 Paul Forman Paul Forman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (1987) 18 (1): 149–229. https://doi.org/10.2307/27757599 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review…
Basic Bethe: Seminal Articles on Nuclear Physics, 1936-1937 . Hans A. Bethe , Robert F. Bacher , M. Stanley Livingston
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
German-Jewish Pioneers in Science 1900-1933: Highlights in Atomic Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry . David Nachmansohn
Correspondance. Choix de Lettres (1905-1934) . Marie Curie, Irène Curie , Gilette Ziegler
The Politics of Modern Science: Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union Wissenschaftspolitik im Wilhelminischen Deutschland. Vorgeschichte, Gründung und Aufbau der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur…
Die Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Geschichte . Werner Hartkopf
Wissenschaftsentwicklung und Wissenschaftssteuerung. Einführung und Material zur Wissenschaftsforschung . Ina-Susanne Spiegel-Rösing
Physics circa 1900: Personnel, Funding, and Productivity of the Academic Establishment
Scientific Papers of Arthur Holly Compton: X-Ray and Other Studies . Arthur Holly Compton , Robert S. Shankland
Originality and Competition in Science. A Study of the British High Energy Physics Community . Jerry Gaston
Wege der Naturforschung 1822-1972 im Spiegel der Versammlungen Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. Hans Querner , Heinrich Schipperges
The Physicist's Conception of Nature. Jagdish Mehra
The financial support and political alignment of physicists in Weimar Germany
Scientific Internationalism and the Weimar Physicists: The Ideology and Its Manipulation in Germany after World War I
The Einstein Story Einstein: The Life and Times . Ronald W. Clark
Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment
Research Article| January 01 1971 Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment Paul Forman Paul Forman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences (1971) 3: 1–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/27757315 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary …
One-Way Traffic on a Two-Way Street Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in This Century . C. H. Waddington
On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity
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 that transition by the dramatic fall, between the early 1960s and the early 1970s, in the cultural valuation of professions and of disciplines. I show that four culturally presupposed values—proceduralism, disinterestedness, autonomy, and solidarity—alo…
Independence, Not Transcendence, for the Historian of Science
(Re)cognizing Postmodernity: Helps for Historians – of Science Especially
(An)erkennung der Postmodernität: Hilfen für Historiker – und Historiker der Wissenschaften im Besonderen. Ausgehend von einer Unterscheidung zwischen der Postmodernit?t als einer von der Modernit?t durch eine breite Umkehr ihrer kulturellen Grundannahmen abgegrenzten historischen Ära und dem Postmodernismus – einer von den selbsternannten Postmodernisten in der frühen Postmodernität angenommenen intellektuellen Attitüde – thematisiert der Aufsat…
The financial support and political alignment of physicists in Weimar Germany
Inventing the Maser in Postwar America
The Doublet Riddle and Atomic Physics circa 1924
Wege der Naturforschung 1822-1972 im Spiegel der Versammlungen Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. Hans Querner , Heinrich Schipperges
Deutsche Wissenschaft und internationale Zusammenarbeit 1914-1928. Ein Beitrag zum Studium kultureller Beziehungen in politischen Krisenzeiten . Brigitte Schröder-Gudehus
The Doublet Riddle and Atomic Physics circa 1924
My Life and My Views. Max Born
The Astrophysics of Berossos the Chaldean
The Archive of Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig: Correspondence of Nineteenth-Century Physical Scientists, Especially German Chemists
Deutsche Wissenschaft und internationale Zusammenarbeit 1914-1928. Ein Beitrag zum Studium kultureller Beziehungen in politischen Krisenzeiten . Brigitte Schröder-Gudehus
Forschungsförderung in drei Epochen. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Geschichte. Arbeitsweise. Kommentar . Kurt Zierold
Briefwechsel, 1916-1955 . Albert Einstein , Max Born , Hedwig Born
Atomic Order. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Microphysics . Enrico Cantore
Briefwechsel. Sechzig Briefe aus dem goldenen Zeitalter der modernen Physik . Albert Einstein , Arnold Sommerfeld , Armin Hermann
Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment
Research Article| January 01 1971 Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment Paul Forman Paul Forman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences (1971) 3: 1–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/27757315 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary …
One-Way Traffic on a Two-Way Street Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in This Century . C. H. Waddington
The Einstein Story Einstein: The Life and Times . Ronald W. Clark
Scientific Internationalism and the Weimar Physicists: The Ideology and Its Manipulation in Germany after World War I
The financial support and political alignment of physicists in Weimar Germany
Scientific Papers of Arthur Holly Compton: X-Ray and Other Studies . Arthur Holly Compton , Robert S. Shankland
Originality and Competition in Science. A Study of the British High Energy Physics Community . Jerry Gaston
Wege der Naturforschung 1822-1972 im Spiegel der Versammlungen Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. Hans Querner , Heinrich Schipperges
The Physicist's Conception of Nature. Jagdish Mehra
Physics circa 1900: Personnel, Funding, and Productivity of the Academic Establishment
Wissenschaftsentwicklung und Wissenschaftssteuerung. Einführung und Material zur Wissenschaftsforschung . Ina-Susanne Spiegel-Rösing
Correspondance. Choix de Lettres (1905-1934) . Marie Curie, Irène Curie , Gilette Ziegler
The Politics of Modern Science: Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union Wissenschaftspolitik im Wilhelminischen Deutschland. Vorgeschichte, Gründung und Aufbau der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur…
Die Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR. Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Geschichte . Werner Hartkopf
German-Jewish Pioneers in Science 1900-1933: Highlights in Atomic Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry . David Nachmansohn
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Philosophy (17 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Art history (12 works) · Physics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Humanities (9 works)