classic papers of the year -- 2009

The redshift of extragalactic nebulae

• Zwicky, F. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)

Rotational properties of 21 SC galaxies with a large range of luminosities and radii, from NGC 4605 (R = 4kpc) to UGC 2885 (R = 122 kpc)

• Rubin, V. C.; Ford, W. K., Jr.; Thonnard, N (Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.)

Experiments to Determine the Density of the Earth

• Henry Cavendish, Esq. F. R. S. and A. S.

Dynamics of the Interplanetary Gas and Magnetic Fields

• Parker, E. N. (Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago)

On Continued Gravitational Contraction

• Oppenheimer, J. R.; Snyder, H. (University of California, Berkeley)

Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes

• Blandford, R. D.; Znajek, R. L. (Institute of Astronomy, The Observatories, Cambridge)

Cosmic Static

• Reber, Grote (Wheaton, Illinois)

On gamma-ray astronomy

• P. Morrison (Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

Apparent Weight of Photons

• Pound, R. V.; Rebka, G. A. (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Capture of Slow Neutrons

• Breit, G.; Wigner, E. (Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University)

On a New Kind of Rays

• W. C. Röntgen

Open letter to the group of radioactive people at the Gauverein meeting in Tübingen

• W. Pauli

Resonant amplification of neutrino oscillations in matter and solar neutrino spectroscopy

• S.P. Mikheev, A.Yu. Smirnov (Institute for Nuclear Research of Academy of Sciences, 60th October Anniversary prosp. 7a, 117 342 Moscow, USSR)

CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction

• Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Department of Physics, Kyoto University)

Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry

• S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University)

Anomaly Cancellation in Supersymmetric D=10 Gauge Theory and Superstring Theory

• Michael B. Green (Queen Mary College, University of London & California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) , John H. Schwarz (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)

The Fate of the False Vacuum: Semiclassical Theory

• Sidney R. Coleman (Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

On superconductivity and superfluidity (what I have and have not managed to do), as well as on the 'physical minimum' at the beginning of the XXI century

• Vitalii L Ginzburg (P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation)