What is Robert Wilson?
{{Nobelprize|Physics}} '''Robert Woodrow Wilson''' (born 10 January 1936)<ref name=nobel >{{cite web|url=http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/wilson-autobio.html|publisher=Nobelprize.org|title=Robert Woodrow Wilson – Autobiography|accessdate=2012-01-23}}</ref><ref name=eb >{{cite encyclopedia|title=Robert Woodrow Wilson|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|accessdate=2012-01-23|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/644743/Robert-Woodrow-Wilson}}</ref> is an [[United States|American]] [[Nobel Prize]]-winning [[astronomer]]. He found part of the [[cosmic microwave background radiation]] in 1964.<ref name=eb /> He was working at the [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]] in [[New Jersey]] on an [[antenna]] with [[Arno Penzias]].<ref name=eb /> This antenna picked up any background 'noise' they could not get rid of. Their findings were [[justification|justified]] by others [[prediction]]s. Fourteen years later, they won the 1978 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for the discovery.<ref name=nobel /><ref name=eb /> == References == <references /> {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Robert}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:American astronomers]] [[Category:Scientists from Houston]]