The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Awarded on: 1978-10-17
"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
Affiliations:
- Bell Laboratories – Holmdel, NJ, USA
Robert Woodrow Wilson
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".