Science & Technology

Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

In 1964, Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, a remnant of the Big Bang, while working on communication technologies at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. Their observations, initially attributed to noise, led them to realize they had stumbled upon a significant relic of the universe's infancy, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory. This discovery profoundly changed the understanding of the cosmos and earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.

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