Congratulations to George F. Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. who have won the Nobel Prize in physics for measuring the oldest light in the heavens, a feat described as "one of the greatest discoveries of the century" that convinced skeptics of the big-bang theory of the universe's origin.

They will share the $1.4 million prize equally for their groundbreaking work.

The full story is on the Washington Post Online edition.