Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1936-01-10 in Houston, TX, USA

Gender: male

Field: American astronomer (born 1936)

Biography

Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978

Awarded on: 1978-10-17

"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"

Affiliations:

  • Bell LaboratoriesHolmdel, NJ, USA