atomic clock: References & Edit History
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: National Institute of Standards and Technology - A Brief History of Atomic Time. | Oct 02, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC News - How atomic clocks could probe dark matter mysteries and fundamental physics. | Dec 26, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Amazingly Precise Optical Atomic Clocks Are More Than Timekeepers. | Sep 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT News - New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely. | Aug 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NIST Technical Series Publications - History of Atomic Clocks (PDF). | Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indian Academy of Sciences - Atomic clocks: A brief history and current status of research in India. | Aug 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Physics - An optically pumped atomic clock based on a continuous slow cesium beam. | Jul 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: IEEE Spectrum - Device That Revolutionized Timekeeping Receives an IEEE Milestone. | Apr 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Institute of Standards and Technology - A Brief History of Atomic Time. | Jan 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Atomic clocks: A brief history and current status of research in India. | Aug 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Atomic clock. | Jun 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - History of Atomic Clocks. | Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engineering and Technology History Wiki - Milestones:First Atomic Clock, 1948. | Mar 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - What is an Atomic Clock? | Jan 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Sciencemuseum - Atomic Clock. | Jul 23, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Mar 24, 2015 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - What Is An Atomic Clock And How Does It Work? | Feb 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Atomic Clocks Work. | Feb 10, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 25, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 02, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | May 04, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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