Definitions for Robert Woodrow Wilson
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1. Wilson, Robert Woodrow Wilsonnoun

   United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)

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1. Robert Woodrow Wilson

   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. The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 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. 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.

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   Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astrophysicist who, alongside Arno Penzias, won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1964 discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. This discovery was significant as it provided substantial supporting evidence for the Big Bang theory. Wilson has worked for several prestigious institutions including Bell Laboratories and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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1. Robert Woodrow Wilson

   Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation. The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrelated work. While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, 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 corroboration of the Big Bang theory.

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