"Robert Noel Hall (December 25, 1919 – November 7, 2016)
was an American engineer and applied physicist."
The New York Times on May 10, 2018 —
"A product of his inventive labor can also be found
in most kitchens nowadays: the microwave oven.
Yet for all the widespread familiarity of what Dr. Hall wrought
as a remarkably ingenious physicist, his death, at 96,
on Nov. 7, 2016, gained little notice."
A fictional kitchen —
In memoriam: Kindergarten Relativity .