Joseph Hodson Holloway 1929 - 1971 Twenty Years of Progress in Atomic Frequency Standards

The scientific career of Joseph Holloway spanned the twenty year period during which atomic beam resonance technology emerged from the academic laboratory to provide the basis for the extremely accurate and stable frequency and time standards available today. Dr. Holloway´s contributions and research work is reviewed. He used the atomic beam method as a tool in his dissertation research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and he then became the leading scientist in the practical development of the present highly refined instruments.