Life, information theory, and topology

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

Claude E. Shannon · Bell System Technical Journal · 1948 · 80.7K citations

Engineering, Communication, Electrical Engineering +11

Communication Patterns in Task-Oriented Groups

Alex Bavelas · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1950 · 2.1K citations

Social Sciences, Organization Studies, Group Processes +10

The General and Logical Theory of Automata

John von Neumann · 2017 · 729 citations

Humanities, Computer Science, Mathematics +9

Cerebral mechanisms in behavior

Mary A. B. Brazier · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology · 1952 · 506 citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology +12

Possible Relation between Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Protein Structures

George Gamow · Nature · 1954 · 390 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +16