DMR's lab number in that era would have been 1127, the famous Computing Science Research Center, for those of you who remember email addresses on "research" (no

DMR's lab number in that era would have been 1127, the famous Computing Science Research Center, for those of you who remember email addresses on "research" (not research.somecompany.com, just "research"). The actual research branch of Bell Labs was area 11, so lab 1127 was two levels down in the org chart. Area 11 itself was headed by Arno Penzias, famous for (with Bob Wilson) co-discovering the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation after finding they couldn't get the last bits of electrical noise out of their microwave antenna output no matter how often they cleaned the bird poop off of it, so they had to look for other sources. He and Wilson won the 1978 physics Nobel for that.