Your two are good. Another notable one is the original discovery of the cosmic microwave background, the primordial echo of the Big Bang, which is still being

Your two are good. Another notable one is the original discovery of the cosmic microwave background, the primordial echo of the Big Bang, which is still being investigated today. That was a 1974 Nobel Prize. A nice list is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#Discoveries_and_developments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#Discoveries_and_devel... Basically, the GP comment is really quite wrong.