Robert Woodrow Wilson Net Worth

Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American physicist and radio astronomer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for his discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. He was born in Houston, Texas and studied at Lamar High School, where he was not a particularly gifted student but excelled in mathematics. He went on to attend Rice University and the California Institute of Technology, where he completed his postgraduate studies and doctoral research. He then joined Bell Laboratories, where he and his colleague Arno Allan Penzias identified CMB radiation while working on something else. Wilson is now a Senior Scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre of Astrophysics.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Physicist
Birth Day January 10, 1936
Birth Place Houston, United States
Age 88 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Aquarius
Residence New Jersey
Alma mater Rice University California Institute of Technology
Known for Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Awards Henry Draper Medal (1977) Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)
Fields Physics

💰 Net worth

Robert Woodrow Wilson, renowned physicist from the United States, is expected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million by 2024. Wilson's contributions to the field of physics have earned him significant recognition and financial success throughout his career. As a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, his work has profoundly impacted our understanding of the universe. With his expertise and groundbreaking research, Wilson's net worth is projected to further grow in the coming years.

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Biography/Timeline

1936

Robert Woodrow Wilson was born on January 10, 1936, in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Lamar High School in River Oaks, in Houston, and studied as an undergraduate at Rice University, also in Houston, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. He then earned a PhD in physics at California Institute of Technology.

1977

Wilson and Penzias also won the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.

1994

Wilson remained at Bell Laboratories until 1994, when he was named a senior scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.