Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astrophysicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978, along with Arno Penzias, for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. This discovery provided crucial evidence for the Big Bang theory, fundamentally enhancing our understanding of the universe’s origins and evolution. Wilson and Penzias conducted experiments using a radio antenna, which led to the unexpected detection of a faint background noise that was later identified as the remnants of the hot early universe.
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