[fnazeeri]

http://www.nature.com/physics/looking-back/crick/index.html#...

Crick et al wrote a 1-page paper (on the structure of DNA) for which they won a Nobel Prize back in 1953.

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

Adding Rosalind Franklin to the author list would have made it too long.

[paulpauper]

yeah..observational discoveries are mostly luck, versus the hard, technical skill required to derive something like an equation.