Watson & Crick, Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids on “Papers that actually changed stuff”, a list by Callum Ogden on TheLysts.
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One page long and it basically invented modern genetics, mad. Everyone quotes it but half the class hasn't actually read it, myself included for about a week
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Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids (Nature, 1953)