[NJARC] That Robert Wilson

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"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."Mark TwainJim

      From: Alex Magoun <a.b.magoun at ieee.org>
 To: njarc at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 2:37 PM
 Subject: [NJARC] That Robert Wilson
   
If this was April 1, I'd state that his irritation with the static in his Atwater Kent reception in 1963 led to his and Arno Penzias's study of background microwave radiation in 1964 so we could say that a tube radio restoration project resulted in a Nobel Prize.
But it's not. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/laureates/index.php?id=112. 
Cheers, Alex
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