Robert Wilson
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Robert Wilson is an American astronomer born in 1936 who has made contributions to the field of astronomy. Without additional context about his specific discoveries or achievements, I cannot provide more detail about why his work matters to general readers.
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Robert Wilson (2 January 1907 – 25 September 1964) was a Scottish tenor. After beginning his career with the Rothesay Entertainers in Scotland, Wilson joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, with whom he performed from 1931 to 1937. He then began a long solo career in concerts, radio, variety and recording, becoming known especially for his performances of Scottish songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(tenor) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Wilson">Read more on Last.fm</a
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Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".
While doing tests and experiments with the Holmdel Horn Antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, Wilson and Penzias discovered 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 CMB, which served as important corroboration of the Big Bang theory.
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