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...
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Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1936 (age 73 years)
