Greatest Papers

6.02 x 1023  What Avogadro did to come up with the number

Avogadro and his theory

Measuring Speed of Light (Michelson, A.A, 1924)

Speed of Light Measurement

Acids-Bases (Bronsted)

Bronsted Acid-Base

Lavoisier, Anton (1743-1794).  Plogiston is a myth.

Lavosier

Nuclear Chemistry

Chadwick Discovers the Neutron (1932)

Rutherford Discovers Fusion (1934)

Fission (Hahn and Straussman, 1939)  Meitner should be included as well.

Fission

Meitner and Frisch, 1939  

Frisch and Meitner (1939)

Niels Bohr, 1939

Niels Bohr - Liquid Drop Experiment

The Creation of Organic Chemistry (1828

The synthesis of urea: Wollaston

Not a "Great Paper" but a review of Gilbert Lewis model that has been used for chemical structure.

Review of G. Lewis model of electrons and bonds

Kary Mullis, 1987 Science (Awarded 1993 Nobel Prize)

Polymerase Chain Reaction 

PCR Review (Scientific American)

PCR Review (How did the idea come about?)