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Robert Woodrow Wilson

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Gender Male
Age 88
Date of birth January 10,1936
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Houston
Texas
United States
Known forCosmic Microwave Background
ResidenceNew Jersey
United States
ParentsFannie 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
NationalityAmerican
SpousElizabeth Rhoads Sawin ​ ​​
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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.

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