I traveled to New York City at the end of January and had a fascinating dinner with Jeffery Madoff, the author of Creative Careers: Make A Living With Your Ideas. He told me about a meeting he had with Nobel Prize winners in physics John C. Mather and David Wineland.
Mather studied cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped cement the "Big Bang Theory" of the universe. Wineland's work was for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."