How Will the 2016 Nobel Winners Contribute to Engineering?

1.  Paragraph 1 and 2 help establish the tone by saying how the noble prize winners research in other field has, impacted engineering in many ways and how engineering might receive a noble prize soon. One word that conveys this tone is "likelihood" and " pretty high".
2. The author conveys the contribution of noble prize winning ideas by talking about different ideas created by non-engineering scientists, that pertain in some way to engineering. This affects the tone of the article by conveying the idea that one day someone can receive a noble prize for engineering.
3. The authors word choice affects the tone by giving a optimistic feeling that many people have won noble prizes for doing things that have to do with engineering.
4. This question seems to be from the previous article about space travel.
5.  This question also seems to be from the Elon musk article