Seminal Science
Superfluidity
Anderson, P.W., 1958. Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices. Physical review, 109(5), p.1492. (Full text)
Information storage
Rosenblatt, F., 1958. The perceptron: a probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain. Psychological review, 65(6), p.386. (Full text)
Single-Molecule Detection
Orrit, M., 2009. From Langmuir–Blodgett films to single molecules. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 74(2), pp.396-400.
Photons
Dyson, F., 2017. How Photons Know Where to Go. From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision, p.145.
Light-Matter Interactions
Purcell, E.M., 1995. Spontaneous emission probabilities at radio frequencies. In Confined Electrons and Photons (pp. 839-839). Springer, Boston, MA.
Enderlein, Jörg. "A theoretical investigation of single-molecule fluorescence detection on thin metallic layers." Biophysical Journal 78.4 (2000): 2151-2158.
Enderlein, J., 2002. Theoretical study of single molecule fluorescence in a metallic nanocavity. Applied physics letters, 80(2), pp.315-317.
Long Range Interaction
French, R.H., Parsegian, V.A., Podgornik, R., Rajter, R.F., Jagota, A., Luo, J., Asthagiri, D., Chaudhury, M.K., Chiang, Y.M., Granick, S. and Kalinin, S., 2010. Long range interactions in nanoscale science. Reviews of Modern Physics, 82(2), p.1887.
What is life
Schrodinger, E., 2012. What is life?: With mind and matter and autobiographical sketches. Cambridge University Press.
Loose, M., Fischer-Friedrich, E., Ries, J., Kruse, K. and Schwille, P., 2008. Spatial regulators for bacterial cell division self-organize into surface waves in vitro. Science, 320(5877), pp.789-792.
Diffusion
Einstein, A., 1905. Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen. Annalen der physik, 4. (Full text)
Chandrasekhar, S., 1943. Stochastic problems in physics and astronomy. Reviews of modern physics, 15(1), p.1.