Paul Forman

2.1k total citations
42 papers, 958 citations indexed

About

Paul Forman is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Forman has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 958 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 7 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Paul Forman's work include Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (9 papers), International Science and Diplomacy (6 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). Paul Forman is often cited by papers focused on Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (9 papers), International Science and Diplomacy (6 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). Paul Forman collaborates with scholars based in United States. Paul Forman's co-authors include J. L. Heilbron, Thomas Kühn, Max Jammer, Lawrence Badash, José Manuel Sánchez Ron, Thomas Powers, R. Bruce Lindsay, Abraham Pais, Stephen Toulmin and Asger Aaboe and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Paul Forman

39 papers receiving 766 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Forman United States	15	531	174	151	140	123	42	958
Lewis Pyenson United States	14	338 0.6×	106 0.6×	118 0.8×	156 1.1×	82 0.7×	80	886
J. L. Heilbron United States	18	479 0.9×	150 0.9×	133 0.9×	131 0.9×	80 0.7×	124	1.3k
I. Bernard Cohen United States	20	579 1.1×	61 0.4×	172 1.1×	216 1.5×	100 0.8×	122	1.7k
Pierre Duhem United States	11	856 1.6×	87 0.5×	103 0.7×	235 1.7×	67 0.5×	38	1.7k
Galileo Galilei United States	14	359 0.7×	87 0.5×	159 1.1×	95 0.7×	26 0.2×	70	1.3k
Ernán McMullin United States	21	759 1.4×	71 0.4×	111 0.7×	248 1.8×	39 0.3×	89	1.4k
Jürgen Renn Germany	20	315 0.6×	147 0.8×	388 2.6×	118 0.8×	40 0.3×	169	1.2k
Mauricio Suárez Spain	17	1.1k 2.0×	174 1.0×	93 0.6×	165 1.2×	36 0.3×	56	1.7k
Haṡok Chang United Kingdom	20	874 1.6×	78 0.4×	92 0.6×	199 1.4×	38 0.3×	69	1.9k
Roger H. Stuewer United States	11	289 0.5×	115 0.7×	95 0.6×	29 0.2×	64 0.5×	49	556

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Forman, Paul. (2012). On the Historical Forms of Knowledge Production and Curation: Modernity Entailed Disciplinarity, Postmodernity Entails Antidisciplinarity. Osiris. 27(1). 56–97. 22 indexed citations

Forman, Paul. (2010). (Re)cognizing Postmodernity: Helps for Historians – of Science Especially. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. 33(2). 157–175. 22 indexed citations

Forman, Paul. (2007). How Lewis Mumford saw science, and art, and himself. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 37(2). 271–336. 2 indexed citations

Forman, Paul. (1998). Molecular beam measurements of nuclear moments before magnetic resonance. Part I: I. I. Rabi and deflecting magnets to 1938. Annals of Science. 55(2). 111–160. 4 indexed citations

Forman, Paul. (1995). Truth and Objectivity, part 2: Trust: A Social History of Truth . Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Steven Shapin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994. xxxii, 483 pp., illus. $29.95 or £23.95. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations.; Trust in Numbers . The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Theodore M. Porter. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995. xiv, 311 pp. $24.95 or £19.95.. Science. 269(5224). 707–710. 7 indexed citations

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(2). 397–455. 7 indexed citations

Forman, Paul & Thomas Powers. (1994). Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb.. The American Historical Review. 99(5). 1715–1715. 5 indexed citations

Forman, Paul. (1992). Inventing the Maser in Postwar America. Osiris. 7. 105–134. 14 indexed citations

Forman, Paul. (1991). Christa Jungnickel and Russell McCormmach. Intellectual Mastery of Nature; Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein. Vol. 1, The Torch of Mathematics, 1800–1870; Vol. 2, The Now Mighty Theoretical Physics, 1870–1925. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1986), xxviii + 350 pp., $55.00; xx + 435 pp., $65.00.. Philosophy of Science. 58(1). 129–132. 1 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1990). Atomic Clocks: The Quantum Physics of Atomic Frequency Standards . Jacques Vanier and Claude Audoin. Hilger, Philadelphia, 1989 (distributor, American Institute of Physics, New York). Two volumes, boxed. xviii, 1567 pp., illus. $550.. Science. 249(4969). 685–688. 1 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1987). Behind Quantum Electronics: National Security as Basis for Physical Research in the United States, 1940-1960. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. 18(1). 149–229. 154 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul & José Manuel Sánchez Ron. (1984). Cultura en Weimar, causalidad y teoría cuántica : 1918-1927: adaptación de los físicos y matemáticos alemanes a un ambiente intelectual hostil. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 3 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul & Abraham Pais. (1984). 'Subtle Is the Lord ...': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein. Technology and Culture. 25(3). 697–697. 2 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1983). A Venture in Writing History: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory . Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg. Vols. 1-4. Vol. 1, The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld: Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties, 1900-1925 . Part 1, xlviii pp. + pp. 1-372. $33.80. Part 2, vi pp. + pp. 373- 878. $36. Vol. 2, The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925 . vi, 356 pp. $32. Vol. 3, The Formulation of Matrix Mechanics and Its Modifications, 1925-1926 . viii, 334 pp. $32. Vol. 4, Parts 1 and 2, The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1926 and The Reception of the New Quantum Mechanics, 1925-1926 . viii, 322 pp. $38. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982.. Science. 220(4599). 824–827. 4 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1982). The fall of parity. The Physics Teacher. 20(5). 281–288. 2 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1977). "atom Smashers: Fifty Years" Preview of an Exhibit on the History of High Energy Accelerators. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 24(3). 1896–1899. 1 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1971). Historiographic Doubts: Physics and Beyond . Encounters and Conversations. Werner Heisenberg. A translation by Arnold J. Pomerans of Der Teil und das Ganze: Gesprache im Umkreis der Atomphysik (Piper, Munich, 1969; DM 24). Harper and Row, New York, 1971. xx, 250 pp. $7.95. World Perspectives, vol. 42.. Science. 172(3984). 687–688. 2 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul. (1969). Deutsche Wissenschaft und internationale Zusammenarbeit 1914-1928. Ein Beitrag zum Studium kultureller Beziehungen in politischen Krisenzeiten. Brigitte Schröder-Gudehus. Isis. 60(4). 588–590. 4 indexed citations

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Kühn, Thomas, et al.. (1968). Sources for the History of Quantum Physics: An Inventory and Report. Synthese. 18(1). 39 indexed citations

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Forman, Paul, et al.. (1968). "The Astrophysics of Berossos the Chaldean". Isis. 59(1). 91–94. 1 indexed citations

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