Greatest Papers
6.02 x 1023 What Avogadro did to come up with the number
Measuring Speed of Light (Michelson, A.A, 1924)
Acids-Bases (Bronsted)
Lavoisier, Anton (1743-1794). Plogiston is a myth.
Nuclear Chemistry
Chadwick Discovers the Neutron (1932)
Rutherford Discovers Fusion (1934)
Fission (Hahn and Straussman, 1939) Meitner should be included as well.
Meitner and Frisch, 1939
Niels Bohr, 1939
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)
PCR Review (Scientific American)
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