| Robert Woodrow Wilson  Born: 10-Jan-1936
Birthplace: Houston, TX
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Detected primordial radiation Wife: Elizabeth Rhoads Sawin (m. 1958)
Son: Philip
Daughter: Suzanne (b. 1963)
Son: Randal (b. 1967)
University: BA, Rice University (1957)
University: PhD, California Institute of Technology (1962)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1978 (with Arno Penzias and Pyotr Kapitsa)
Henry Draper Medal 1977 (with Arno Penzias)
Bell Laboratories (1963-76)
National Academy of Sciences 1979
Phi Beta Kappa Society
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