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, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in 1964. The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery.