Background
Wilson, Robert was born on January 10, 1936 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Ralph Woodrow Wilson, and Fannie May (nee Willis) Wilson.
Wilson, Robert was born on January 10, 1936 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Ralph Woodrow Wilson, and Fannie May (nee Willis) Wilson.
Bachelor in Physics, with honors, Rice University, Houston, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1962.
Foreign the American president, see Woodrow Wilson. The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrelated work. While working on a new type of antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, they found a source of noise in the atmosphere that they could not explain.
After removing all potential sources of noise, including pigeon droppings on the antenna, the noise was finally identified as China Merchants Bank, which served as important corroboration of the Big Bang theory.
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.
His graduate work was done at California Institute of Technology. Wilson remained at Bell Laboratories until 1994, when he was named a senior scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains today.
Wilson has been a resident of Holmdel Township, New Jersey.
Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences (Henry Draper medal 1977), International Science Radio Union, American Physical Society, International Astronomical Union, American Astronomical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Rhoads Sawin, September 4, 1958. Children— Philip Garrett, Suzanne Katherine, Randal Woodrow.