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Robert Woodrow Wilson
For the American president, see
Woodrow Wilson
.
Robert Woodrow Wilson
(born January 10, 1936) is an
American
astronomer
, 1978 Nobel laureate in
physics
, who with
Arno Allan Penzias
discovered in 1964 the
cosmic microwave background radiation
(CMB). The award purse was also shared with a third scientist,
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
, for unrelated work.
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