What do popcorn, wi-fi and the Big Bang have in common? The answer is microwaves. The 1909 physics laureate Guglielmo Marconi made a revolutionary telephone that used microwaves. The technology kept evolving during World War II. Some decades later, two other physics laureates made another microwave-related discovery. Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson – awarded the prize in 1978 – found the cosmic microwave background, an echo of the Big Bang that still fills the universe. In other words, microwaves

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During his Nobel Prize banquet speech, 2013 physics laureate Peter Higgs reflected on the decades of research – and the many individuals – whose work contributed to understanding the origin of subatomic particle mass. Among those whose insights shaped this achievement was Robert Brout, whose collaboration with François Englert laid the theoretical foundations of what is now known as the Brout–Englert–Higgs (BEH) mechanism. Although Brout did not live to see the Higgs boson’s discovery or share i