Robert Woodrow Wilson: Tuning in to the Big Bang
Robert Woodrow Wilson: Tuning in to the Big Bang

301118 When astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson and physicist Arno Allan Penzias were testing a new type of antenna, they hardly expected their work would lead to some of the most important discoveries of modern cosmology.

What started as annoying noise in their measurements turned out to be the background hum of the early Universe.