Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer. He won the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics, together with Arno Allan Penzias, for their 1964 accidental discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation or CMB (the prize for that year was also shared by Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa for unrelated work). While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, they found a source of noise in the atmosphere t... More

Date of birth:

  • Jan 10, 1936 (age 76 years)

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Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1978
  • "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
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  • Person

Assessment:

  • Together with Arno Penzias, discovered evidence of the background radiation of the universe.

Category:

  • engineering and technology

Disciplines:

  • astrophysicist
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