"David Todd Wilkinson died on 5 September 2002 in Princeton, New Jersey, after having battled cancer for 17 years. His role in the measurements of the thermal (CMB) was key to the completion of the program of cosmological tests that began with Edwin Hubble’s discovery of the expanding universe in 1929."
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David Todd Wilkinson
(May 13, 1935 – September 5, 2002) was an American cosmologist and a professor of physics at Princeton University. He was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. The (WMAP) is named in his honor.
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