Hi Lucie, Pierre, For the fact at the end of newsletter, here is something you can use if you want. Let me fact check with John first though (will put you in cc) How is the success of Brillouin Light Scattering spectroscopy connected to the success of Elvis Presley? One of the key enabling commercial technologies that brought Brillouin light scattering to “common” scientific usage (starting in the ~1970-1980’s) was the 6-pass Tandem Fabry Perot spectrometer, developed by John Sandercock. John Sandercock at the time worked for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) – a company founded in 1919 by General Electric with the initial aim of acquiring assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company. RCA are probably most famous for introducing both the black-and-white and colour television to homes around the world. As with other large electronics companies at the time (Bell Labs, Xerox, etc.), investing in basic/applied research was “cool” and well-funded. RCA went through a number of liquidations of its divisions, and changes in ownership. Two assets associated with the brand-name RCA that still remain are NBC and RCA Records. RCA Records famously signed a young Elvis Presley in 1955 from a small Nashville label (Sun Records) for a nominal fee, and released his records to the masses, making him the worlds’ first “Rock Star”. These changes in focus of the RCA company in the 1980’s, also led John Sandercock to start his own company (Table Stable Ltd) which commercialized the first Brillouin Spectrometer. It was a win-win!