Levinthal's Paradox and the Kinetic Pathway of Protein Folding
Summary of Cyrus Levinthal's 1969 talk that introduced the famous paradox of protein folding, arguing that the …
Foundational Summaries
Various Techniques Used in Connection With Random Digits
Summary of John von Neumann's 1951 paper (transcribed by G. E. Forsythe) that lays the conceptual groundwork for modern …
Communication in the Presence of Noise
Summary of Claude Shannon's 1949 paper that establishes the mathematical foundations of information theory, introducing …
The Number of Isomeric Hydrocarbons of the Methane Series
Summary of Henze and Blair's seminal 1931 JACS paper introducing a recursive method for calculating the number of …
The Surface of Venus
A review of Basilevsky and Head's synthesis of Venus's geology and surface features, emphasizing radar imaging and …