✎ About Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson was born on January 10, 1936 in Houston, United States, is Physicist. Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American radio astronomer and physicist who was one of the co-recipients of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. His discovery advanced the Big Bang model of creation. He was born in Houston, Texas and studied at the Lamar High School in the same city. According to his own admission, he was not a particularly gifted student but shone in mathematics and after graduating from high school, he was barely able to scrape through into Rice University. He was awarded a BA in physics and eventually went on to complete his post graduate studies and doctoral research from the California Institute of Technology. After completing his education, he joined Bell Laboratories and it was during his tenure there that he and his fellow researcher, Arno Allan Penzias, was able to identify Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, when they were working on something else. He is currently engaged as the Senior Scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Centre of Astrophysics.
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Popular As	Robert Woodrow Wilson
Occupation	Scientists
Age	88 years old
Zodiac Sign	Aquarius
Born	January 10, 1936 (Houston, United States)
Birthday	January 10
Town/City	Houston, United States
Nationality	United States

🌙 Zodiac

Robert Woodrow Wilson’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Robert Woodrow Wilson was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.

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Biography/Timeline

1936

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.

1977

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

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.