Discovering the Cosmic Microwave Backgroundwith Robert Wilson | CfA

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: In 1964 Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered a mysterious radio hiss coming from all directions of the sky. It turned out to be the whisper of the Big Bang -- an afterglow known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The two scientists later shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for their find. Hear about this momentous discovery from Wilson himself at an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of detecting the CMB. Part of the Observatory Night lecture series at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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