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Robert Woodrow Wilson was born on 10 January, 1936 in Houston, Texas, U.S., is an American astronomer (born 1936). Discover Robert Woodrow Wilson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1936
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Houston, Texas, U.S.
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1936

Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in 1964.

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

He graduated from Lamar High School in River Oaks, in Houston, and studied as an undergraduate at Rice University, also in Houston, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society.

He then earned a PhD in physics at California Institute of Technology.

His thesis advisors at Caltech included John Bolton and Maarten Schmidt.

1958

Wilson married Elizabeth Rhoads Sawin in 1958.

1970

In 1970, Wilson led a team that made the first detection of a rotational spectral line of carbon monoxide (CO) in an astronomical object, the Orion Nebula, and eight other galactic sources.

Subsequently, CO observations became the standard method of tracing cool molecular interstellar gas, and detection of CO was the foundational event for the fields of millimeter and submillimeter astronomy.

1977

Wilson and Penzias also won the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

1978

The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery.

While doing tests and experiments with the Holmdel Horn Antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, Wilson and Penzias discovered 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.

1987

Wilson received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1987.

1994

Wilson remained at Bell Laboratories until 1994, when he was named a senior scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wilson has been a resident of Holmdel Township, New Jersey.

2008

Wilson is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

2009

Wilson was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2009.