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Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
, Nobel laureate in physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
, who with Arno Allan Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias is an United States physicist and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in physics.Penzias was born in Munich, Germany. At age six he was among the Jews in Germany children evacuated to United Kingdom as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation....
 discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation
Cosmic microwave background radiation

In physical cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB is a form of electromagnetic radiation filling the universe. With a traditional optical telescope, the space between stars and galaxies is pitch black....
 (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a 3rd scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa for unrelated work.

While working on a new type of antenna
Horn Antenna

The Horn Antenna, at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, is listed as a National Historic Landmark because of its association with the research work of two radio astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson....
 at Bell Labs
Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities throughout the world....
 in Holmdel, 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 confirmation of the Big Bang
Big Bang

The Big Bang is the physical cosmology model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the universe supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific method and observation....
 theory.

rt Woodrow Wilson was born on January 10, 1936, in Houston, Texas.






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Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 astronomer
Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies Celestial body such as planets, stars, and Galaxy.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using physical laws....
, Nobel laureate in physics
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
, who with Arno Allan Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias is an United States physicist and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in physics.Penzias was born in Munich, Germany. At age six he was among the Jews in Germany children evacuated to United Kingdom as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation....
 discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation
Cosmic microwave background radiation

In physical cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation CMB is a form of electromagnetic radiation filling the universe. With a traditional optical telescope, the space between stars and galaxies is pitch black....
 (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a 3rd scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa for unrelated work.

While working on a new type of antenna
Horn Antenna

The Horn Antenna, at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, is listed as a National Historic Landmark because of its association with the research work of two radio astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson....
 at Bell Labs
Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities throughout the world....
 in Holmdel, 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 confirmation of the Big Bang
Big Bang

The Big Bang is the physical cosmology model of the initial conditions and subsequent development of the universe supported by the most comprehensive and accurate explanations from current scientific method and observation....
 theory.

Life and work

Robert Woodrow Wilson was born on January 10, 1936, in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Lamar High School
Lamar High School (Houston)

Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School is a secondary school located at 3325 Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, Texas, United States, with a zip code of 77098....
 in downtown Houston and studied as an undergraduate at Rice University
Rice University

William Marsh Rice University is a private university research university located in Houston, Texas, Texas, United States. The campus is located near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center....
 (Houston), where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. His graduate work was done at California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering....
.

Wilson and Penzias also won the Henry Draper Medal
Henry Draper Medal

The Henry Draper Medal was established by the widow of Henry Draper, and is awarded by the U.S. United States National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astrophysics....
 in 1977.

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