Nationality United States Role Astronomer | Name Robert Wilson | |
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Known for Cosmic microwave background Awards Nobel Prize in Physics, Henry Draper Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Similar People Arno Allan Penzias, George Gamow, Robert H Dicke, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Guglielmo Marconi | ||
Robert woodrow wilson tuning in to the big bang
Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrelated work.
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- Robert woodrow wilson tuning in to the big bang
- Teorias de arno allan penzias e robert woodrow wilson
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While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, they found a source of noise in the atmosphere that they could not explain. After removing all potential sources of noise, including pigeon droppings on the antenna, the noise was finally identified as CMB, which served as important corroboration of the Big Bang theory.
Teorias de arno allan penzias e robert woodrow wilson
Life and work
Robert Woodrow Wilson was born on January 10, 1936, in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Lamar High School in River Oaks, in Houston, and studied as an undergraduate at Rice University, also in Houston, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. His graduate work was done at California Institute of Technology.
Wilson and Penzias also won the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Wilson remained at Bell Laboratories until 1994, when he was named a senior scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Wilson has been a resident of Holmdel Township, New Jersey.
Wilson married Elizabeth Rhoads Sawin in 1958.