List of important publications in physics

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• Breakthrough - A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
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  Applied physics

Accelerator physics

Biophysics

• Schrödinger, E. W.. What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press..
• Turing, A. M.. "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 237 : 37–72. doi:.
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  Cell

Mathematical

• Medical

Molecular

Neurophysics

• Describes the Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potentials in neurons.

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Geophysics

• *English translation: Republication of the 1893 unabridged and unaltered translation by Paul Fleury Mottelay.

  Physics of computation

Plasma physics

Astronomy and astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology

• Atomic and molecular physics

• Zeeman papers
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• Planck, Max.
• Einstein, Albert.
• Bohr, Niels.
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• Arnold Sommerfeld.
• de Broglie, Louis.
• Matrix mechanics papers: W. Heisenberg, M. Born and P. Jordan, M. Born, W. Heisenberg, and P. Jordan.
• Schroedinger, E.
• Herzberg, Gerhard Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure I. Diatomic Molecules
• Herzberg, Gerhard Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure II. Infrared and Raman Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules
• Herzberg, Gerhard Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure III. Electronic Spectra of Polyatomic Molecules

  Classical mechanics

• Hamilton's papers.
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• Noether, Emmy.
• Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser papers.
• * Kolmogorov, A. N. "On Conservation of Conditionally Periodic Motions for a Small Change in Hamilton's Function." Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 98, 527–530, 1954.
• *Moser, J. "On Invariant Curves of Area-Preserving Mappings of an Annulus." Nachr. Akad. Wiss. Göttingen Math.-Phys. Kl. II, 1-20, 1962.
• * Arnol'd, V. I. "Proof of a Theorem of A. N. Kolmogorov on the Preservation of Conditionally Periodic Motions under a Small Perturbation of the Hamiltonian." Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 18, 13–40, 1963.

  Fluid dynamics

• Archimedes. "On Floating Bodies". Syracuse, Sicily. Partial preservation.
• Daniel Bernoulli. Hydrodynamica, sive de viribus et motibus fluidorum commentarii. Strasbourg. English translation: Hydrodynamics and Hydraulics by Daniel Bernoulli and Johann Bernoulli.
• Jean le Rond D'Alembert. Essai d'une nouvelle théorie de la résistance des fluides . Paris.
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  Computational physics

• S. Ulam, R. D. Richtmyer, and J. von Neumann. ; LANL Scientific Laboratory report LAMS–551. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
• Metropolis, N.; et al.
• Fermi, E.; Pasta, J.; Ulam, S. : . Los Alamos Laboratory Document LA-1940.
• Molecular dynamics.
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• Car-Parrinello ab-initio molecular dynamics.
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  Condensed matter physics

• Kamerlingh Onnes, H., "Further experiments with liquid helium. C. On the change of electric resistance of pure metals at very low temperatures, etc. IV. The resistance of pure mercury at helium temperatures." Comm. Phys. Lab. Univ. Leiden; No. 120b, 1911.
• Kamerlingh Onnes, H., "Further experiments with liquid helium. D. On the change of electric resistance of pure metals at very low temperatures, etc. V. The disappearance of the resistance of mercury." Comm. Phys. Lab. Univ. Leiden; No. 122b, 1911.
• Kamerlingh Onnes, H., "Further experiments with liquid helium. G. On the electrical resistance of pure metals, etc. VI. On the sudden change in the rate at which the resistance of mercury disappears." Comm. Phys. Lab. Univ. Leiden; No. 124c, 1911.
• J. Bardeen, L. N. Cooper, and J. R. Schrieffer papers
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  Polymer physics

Electromagnetism

• William Gilbert, Aaron Dowling, 1600.
• Coulomb, C. A.. Mémoires sur l'Électricité et le Magnétisme, a series of seven memoirs.
• Online links at , and at the Internet Archive.
• Ohm, GS. "Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet ". TH Riemann, Berlin.
• Green, George. "An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism", Nottingham.
• Hall, E.H.. "On a New Action of the Magnet on Electric Currents". American Journal of Mathematics vol 2, p. 287-292. Thesis, Johns Hopkins U.

  General physics

• Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz. Course of Theoretical Physics.
• Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands. Feynman Lectures on Physics. Addison–Wesley.

  Mathematical physics

• Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1901. "Vector Analysis: A text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs Ph.D. LL.D." .
• Minkowski relativity papers :
• Silberstein, Ludwik
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• Eddington, Arthur
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• * 1st German edition 1924; current English edition April 1989, Print ; online.
• * 1st German edition 1937; current English edition: April 1989,. Print, online.
• Weyl, H.K.H.. Elektron und Gravitation. I. Z. Phys., 330.
• von Neumann, John.
• C. N. Yang, R. Mills

  Pre-Modern (''Classical'') mathematical physics

• Galilei, Galileo
• Newton, Isaac
• Lagrangia, Giuseppe Ludovico
• Fourier, J-B.J. Mémoire sur la propagation de la chaleur dans les corps solides .
• Hamilton, William Rowan
• English translation by Freeman, with editorial 'corrections'. Revised French edition, Darboux , with many editorial corrections.
• Green, George.
• Hamilton, William Rowan
• Clerk Maxwell, James

  Nonlinear dynamics and chaos

• Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser papers.
• Fermi, E.; Pasta, J.; Ulam, S.

  Optics

• Hamiltonian geometrical optics. Theory of Systems of Rays and three supplements. Reissued in
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• *——. "Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of Systems of Rays"
• *——. "Second Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of Systems of Rays"
• *——. "Third Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of Systems of Rays"
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  Nuclear and particle physics

Nuclear physics

• Rutherford, E.. Radio-activity. Courier Dover Publications, 399 pages., 9780486495859.
• Neutron discovery.
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• Bethe Nuclear Physics papers
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• Wu et al.
• Fowler et al..

  Particle physics

• Thomson, JJ.
• Hess, V. F..
• Fermi, E..
• J. C. Street and E. C. Stevenson. "New Evidence for the Existence of a Particle Intermediate Between the Proton and Electron", Phys. Rev. 52, 1003.
• Cowan et al.
• Sakharov, A. D..

  Quantum mechanics

• For relevant publications before 1900, see [|atomic and molecular physics] section.
• Bohr model papers:
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• Arnold Sommerfeld. Atombau und Spektrallinien. Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig'.
• *Arnold Sommerfeld, translated from the third German edition by Henry L. Brose Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines
• de Broglie, Louis. Recherches sur la théorie des quanta , Thesis, Paris. Ann. de Physique 3, 22
• Matrix mechanics papers:
• *W. Heisenberg, Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen, Zeitschrift für Physik, 33, 879-893.
• *M. Born and P. Jordan, Zur Quantenmechanik, Zeitschrift für Physik, 34, 858-888.
• *M. Born, W. Heisenberg, and P. Jordan, Zur Quantenmechanik II, Zeitschrift für Physik, 35, 557–615,.
• Wave mechanics papers.
• *Schroedinger, E. "Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem" . Four communications.
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• *Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Beyer, R. T., trans., Princeton Univ. Press. 1996 edition:.
• Feynman, R P. "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics". Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University. Reprinted as Laurie M. Brown ed.,. World Scientific, 2005..

  Quantum field theory

• Klein and Gordon papers:
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• Dirac equation:
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• Electroweak unification papers:
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• Higgs et al. 1964 papers:
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• Gross, Wilczek & Politzer 1973 papers:
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  Relativity

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• *English translation:. In: The Principle of Relativity, Calcutta: University Press, 1-69
• * Translation by Meghnad Saha, "Space and Time" :.

• General

Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics

• English translation by Freeman, with editorial 'corrections'. Revised French edition, Darboux , with many editorial corrections.
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• Peierls, R.; Born, M..
• Fermi, E.; Pasta, J.; Ulam, S.