Seeds of Knowledge

50 papers that built civilization. 348,777 papers in the citation graph. 424,939 edges.

Artificial Intelligence (1)

Vaswani et al. 2017 — Attention Is All You Need Semantic Scholar · Encyclopedia

Biology (6)

Mendel 1866 — Experiments on Plant Hybridization Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Watson & Crick 1953 — Structure of DNA DOI · Encyclopedia
Sanger 1977 — DNA Sequencing DOI · Encyclopedia
Mullis 1986 — PCR Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Jinek/Doudna/Charpentier 2012 — CRISPR-Cas9 DOI · Encyclopedia
Kariko & Weissman 2005 — mRNA Modification Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia

Chemistry (10)

Haber & Le Rossignol 1913 — Ammonia Synthesis Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Ziegler et al. 1955 — Polyethylene Catalysis Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Pauling 1931 — The Nature of the Chemical Bond Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Bragg 1913 — X-ray Crystal Structure Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Woodward & Hoffmann 1968 — Conservation of Orbital Symmetry Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Sharpless 2001 — Click Chemistry Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Grubbs 1996 — Olefin Metathesis Catalyst Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Martin & Synge 1941 — Partition Chromatography Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Arrhenius 1889 — Reaction Rates / Activation Energy Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Purcell 1946 — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia

Computer Science (3)

Dijkstra 1959 — Shortest Path Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Cerf & Kahn 1974 — TCP/IP Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Berners-Lee 1989 — The World Wide Web Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia

Cryptography (1)

Rivest, Shamir, Adleman 1978 — RSA DOI · Encyclopedia

Economics (7)

Murray Rothbard 1963 — What Has Government Done to Our Money Semantic Scholar · Encyclopedia
John Locke 2003 — Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concernin Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
David Ricardo 1817 — The First Six Chapters Of The Principles Of Politi Semantic Scholar · Encyclopedia
Adam Smith 2018 — An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt Semantic Scholar · Encyclopedia
Israel Kirzner 1974 — Competition and Entrepreneurship Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Friedrich Hayek 1945 — The Road to Serfdom. Friedrich A. Hayek Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
James Buchanan 1962 — The Calculus of Consent Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia

Engineering (6)

Bardeen & Brattain 1948 — The Transistor DOI · Encyclopedia
Goodenough 1980 — Lithium-Ion Battery Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Kilby 1964 — Integrated Circuit Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Gordon E. Moore 1998 — Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Warren S. McCulloch 1944 — McCulloch Warren S. and Pitts Walter. A logical ca Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
David E. Rumelhart 1986 — Learning representations of back-propagation error Semantic Scholar · Encyclopedia

History (2)

Elizabeth Eisenstein 1980 — The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communic Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
R. J. Rummel 1994 — Death by Government Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia

Mathematics (3)

Shannon 1948 — A Mathematical Theory of Communication Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Turing 1937 — On Computable Numbers DOI · Encyclopedia
Cooley & Tukey 1965 — Fast Fourier Transform DOI · Encyclopedia

Medicine (2)

Koch 1882 — Germ Theory (Aetiology of Tuberculosis) Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Fleming 1929 — Penicillin Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia

Physics (9)

Maxwell 1865 — Electromagnetic Field Theory Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Boltzmann 1877 — Statistical Mechanics / Entropy Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Einstein 1905 — Special Relativity Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Einstein 1916 — General Relativity Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Von Neumann 1932 — Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Maiman 1960 — The Laser Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Galileo Galilei 1914 — Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Isaac Newton 2016 — Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia
Michael Faraday 1832 — Experimental Researches in Electricity. Twenty-Eig Semantic Scholar · DOI · Encyclopedia