Princeton University in History

Dicke revives interest in detecting relic radiation from a hot early universe

Wilkinson helps build a radiometer intended to detect the predicted microwave background

Peebles calculates theoretical implications of a relic radiation background for hot Big Bang cosmology

Roll works with Wilkinson on an experiment to search for relic microwave radiation

Dicke organises a Princeton group to search experimentally for cosmic microwave background radiation

Wilkinson coauthors the Princeton paper explaining the cosmic microwave background result

Peebles coauthors the interpretation paper connecting the microwave background to Big Bang cosmology

Roll coauthors the interpretation of the microwave background as a cosmological relic

Dicke interprets the microwave background detection as relic radiation from a hot dense early universe

Peebles develops theoretical physical cosmology using the microwave background and structure formation

Studies how small early fluctuations could grow into galaxies after the Big Bang

Wilkinson develops increasingly sensitive measurements of the microwave background

Peebles connects dark matter and structure formation to the evolution of the Big Bang universe

Spergel interprets WMAP data to constrain the standard model of Big Bang cosmology

Page contributes microwave background analysis from WMAP that sharpens cosmological parameters

Steinhardt critiques aspects of inflation and stimulates debate over early universe evidence