classic papers of the year -- 2008

Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions

• T.D. Lee (Columbia University, New York, New York) , Chen-Ning Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York)

Experimental Test Of Parity Conservation In Beta Decay

• C.S. Wu (Columbia University, New York, New York) , E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson (National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.)

The strength of the weak interactions

• Lincoln Wolfenstein (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA)

The Connection Between Spin and Statistics

• W. Pauli (Physikalisches Institut, Eidg. Technischen Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland)

Spinning Electrons and the Structure of Spectra

• Uhlenbeck, G. E., Goudsmit, S.

See also: The discovery of the electron spin

Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays

• N. Cabibbo (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

Violation of CP Invariance, c Asymmetry, and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

• A.D. Sakharov

See also

Remarks on the Evolution of the Expanding Universe

• Alpher, Ralph A.; Herman, Robert C. (Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Silver Spring, MD)

On the Stopping of fast particles and on the creation of positive electrons

• H. Bethe (Manchester), W. Heitler (Bristol)

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin

• Klebesadel, Ray W.; Strong, Ian B.; Olson, Roy A. (University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM)

A Generalist Looks Back

• Salpeter, Edwin E.