Robert Woodrow Wilson

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1978

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1971-1980, Editor Stig Lundqvist, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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