«The exercise revealed some surprises, not least that it takes a staggering 12,119 citations to rank in the top 100 — and that many of the world's most famous papers do not make the cut,» Richard Van Noorden, Brendan Maher, and Regina Nuzzo wrote at Nature. (sciencemag.org)
I recently heard Jim Shelton, President of Chan Zuckerberg Education, speak about Benjamin Bloom's famous paper from the 1980s, «The 2 Sigma Problem.» (powermylearning.org)
The arrival of big science put paid to individual eccentrics, even as Einstein's famous papers scotched 19th - century dreams of unifying the sciences. (newscientist.com)