Robert Woodrow Wilson
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Links to other sites
‘Penzias and Wilson discover cosmic microwave radiation’ from PBS
On Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson from American Physical Society
‘Who Were Penzias and Wilson?’ from American Institute of Physics
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