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Revision as of 16:11, 4 August 2012
For the American President, see Woodrow Wilson.
Robert Woodrow Wilson (left) with Arno Allan Penzias | |
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| Born | January 10, 1936 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Rice University, California Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
| Awards | Henry Draper Medal (1977) Nobel Prize in Physics (1978) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
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.
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.
Life and work
Robert Woodrow Wilson was born on January 10, 1936, in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Lamar High School in River Oaks Houston[1] and studied as an undergraduate at Rice University (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.[2]
Wilson has been a resident of Holmdel Township, New Jersey.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Distinguished HISD Alumni," Houston Independent School District
- ^ "Henry Draper Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ Nobel Lectures, Physics 1971-1980, Editor Stig Lundqvist, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992. Autobiography. Accessed March 15, 2011. "We still live in the house in Holmdel which we bought when I first came to Bell Laboratories."
References
- "Distinguished HISD Alumni", Houston Independent School District, Houston, Texas, 2008.
- Cite Video | BBC/WGBH BOSTON | NOVA #519 | A Whisper From Space | Copyright 1978 | Available With Permission | Consolidated Aircraft - Ronkonkoma, New York
External links
- Robert Woodrow Wilson: Official Nobel page
- Annotated bibliography for Robert Wilson from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
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- 1936 births
- American astronomers
- American Nobel laureates
- American physicists
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- Living people
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Nobel laureates in Physics
- People from Holmdel Township, New Jersey
- Rice University alumni
- Scientists at Bell Labs
- National Academy of Sciences laureates