Ph.D. Dissertations of the Immortals

In some cases, papers that earned them Ph.D. (like Einstein's)

#	Name	Title	Year	Pages	Refs	Institution
1	Albert Einstein	A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions	1905	14	0	U. Zurich
2	Marie Curie	Research on Radioactive Substances	1903	156	0	Sorbonne
3	Claude Shannon	A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits	1940	69	6	MIT
4	John Nash	Non-Cooperative Games	1950	32	0	Princeton
5	Louis de Broglie	Research on Quantum Theory	1925	81	8	Sorbonne
6	Richard P. Feynman	The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanices	1942	76	0	Princeton
8	Bernhard Riemann	On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry	1868	15	0	Goettingen
7	Stephen Wolfram	Some Topics in Theoretical High-Energy Physics	1980	67	7	CalTech
8	Simon Ramo	A Proposed New Standard for High Voltage Measurements	1936	70	7	CalTech
9	William B. McLean	Short Range Alpha Particles from the Bombardment of Fluorine with Protons	1939	49	19	CalTech

Inspired by this guy who plagiarized from these folks.