Robert Woodrow Wilson
1936-
American physicist, astronomer, and sculptor who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1978 for the serendipitous discovery, with Arno Penzias in 1964-65, of the cosmi...
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Wilson, Robert W. (1936- )
American physicist
Robert Woodrow Wilson is best known for the discovery, with co-researcher Arno Penzias, of the cosmic background radiation believed to be the remnant of t...
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Robert Woodrow Wilson was born in Houston, Texas, on January 10, 1936. He attended Rice University where he received a B.A. in physics in 1957. He then moved on to the California Institute of Technolo...
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