David Wilkinson
David Todd Wilkinson (May 13rd 1935 - September 5th 2002) is a American astrophysicist, universally recognized for its work of pioneer in the field of the Cosmologie, and specialized in the study of the cosmological diffuse Fond resulting from the Big bang.
It was born in Hillsdale in the state from the Michigan to the the United States, and obtains a doctorate of Physique at the university of Michigan.
He will be professor of physics to the Université of Princeton of 1965 until his retirement in 2002, and will contribute fundamental shares to the analysis and the study of the cosmological diffuse bottom (FDC), while being in particular the initiator and the scientific director of the satellites COBE and WMAP launched by NASA to study the FDC, this last bearing satellite besides his name to pay homage to him after his untimely death of the continuations of a cancer.
He received the Médaille James Craig Watson in 2001.
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