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David Todd Wilkinson Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
David Todd Wilkinson helped construct a receiving horn and radiometer for absolute microwave-background measurements. The 1965 hot-universe paper explicitly credited the Princeton instrument to him and P. G. Roll, and explained the 3-centimetre wavelength as a compromise between atmospheric absorption and longer-wavelength foregrounds. Its measurements were still pending when the paper interpreted the separately reported microwave excess. This separates the team's experimental preparation from the evidence already available for relic radiation.[ref]
Cosmic Black-Body Radiation by R. H. Dicke and others. pp. 415–416, instrument credit, wavelength choice and pending results
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