You have full access to this article through your institution. Iconic Nature covers the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Covers of Nature can be found hanging on home and office walls; They are regularly mentioned in conferences and are even topics of academic study.1. Likewise, they are an opportunity for scientists, science writers, and editors
The size of scientific research teams has steadily increased over time.Credit: two meows/Getty Few articles in history have had the disruptive impact of the 1953 article by James Watson and Francis Crick. Nature article proposing the double helix structure of DNA1. It is a classic of small team science; two authors who propose a paradigm-changing
