Forget cosmology and quantum mechanics. A list of most important physics papers from the past century reveals condensed matter physics is where it's really at, says Philip Ball.
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Ball, P. Unlikely chart-toppers. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news040726-16
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