Robert Woodrow Wilson
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 88 |
Date of birth | January 10,1936 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Houston |
Texas | |
United States | |
Known for | Cosmic Microwave Background |
Residence | New Jersey |
United States | |
Parents | Fannie Willis Wilson |
Ralph W. Wilson | |
Job | Astronomer |
Physicist | |
Education | California Institute of Technology |
Rice University | |
Lamar High School | |
Awards | Henry Draper Medal |
Nobel Prize in Physics | |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
Nationality | American |
Spous | Elizabeth Rhoads Sawin |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 569774 |
Robert Woodrow Wilson Life story
Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964. The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery.