"Third Supplement to an Essay on the Theory of Systems of Rays" (Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 17 (1837), pp. 1–144.) A series of papers recording Hamilton's work in geometric optics. This would later become an inspiration for Hamiltonian mechanics. Maxwell, James Clerk (1861), (1865). See electromagnetism section. These three papers introduced the Frequency comb technique. The earlier presented the main idea but last is the one often cited. Nuclear and particle physics Nuclear physics Reported the accidental discovery of a new kind of radiation. Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. Rutherford, E. (2004; first ed. 1904). Radio-activity. Courier Dover Publications, 399 pages. , 9780486495859. Gives an account of the author's discovery of high energy cosmic radiation. Awarded half of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. Neutron discovery. Chadwick's experiments confirmed the identity of the mysterious particle detected independently by Joliot-Curie & Joliot, and Bothe & Becker and predicted by Majorana and others to be a neutral nucleon in 1932, for which Chadwick was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935. . In Italian. Introduced a theory of beta decay, which first appeared in 1933. The article was later translated into German, and much later English, having been refused publication in Nature. This was later influential in understanding the weak nuclear force. Bethe Nuclear Physics papers A series of three articles by Hans Bethe summarizing the knowledge in the subject of Nuclear Physics at the time of publication. The set of three articles is colloquially referred to as "Bethe's bible". This contains an account of an experiment first suggested by Wang, confirming the existence of a particle (the neutrino, more precisely the electron neutrino) first predicted by Pauli in 1940; a result that was rewarded almost forty years later with the 1995 Nobel Prize for Reines. Wu et al. (1957) See particle physics section. Fowler et al. (1957). See astrophysics section. Particle physics Thomson, JJ (1897). See the atomic and molecular physics section. Hess, V. F. (1912). See the nuclear physics section. Experimental detection of the positron verifying the prediction from the Dirac equation, for which Anderson won the Nobel Physics prize in 1936. See also: Fermi, E. (1934). See the nuclear physics section. J. C. Street and E. C. Stevenson. "New Evidence for the Existence of a Particle Intermediate Between the Proton and Electron", Phys. Rev. 52, 1003 (1937). Experimental confirmation of