Robert Woodrow Wilson
American astronomer (born 1936)
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Astronomer who picked up a 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Arno Penzias for stumbling onto cosmic microwave background radiation—basically the universe's leftover heat from the Big Bang.
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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".
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