David T. Wilkinson (Q1642)
American cosmologist (1935–2002) who, as a member of Robert Dicke's group at Princeton, co-authored the 1965 paper 'Cosmic Black-Body Radiation' interpreting the microwave background discovered by Penzias and Wilson; the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe is named in his honour
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American cosmologist (1935–2002) who, as a member of Robert Dicke's group at Princeton, co-authored the 1965 paper 'Cosmic Black-Body Radiation' interpreting the microwave background discovered by Penzias and Wilson; the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe is named in his honour |
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13 May 1935
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5 September 2002
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