http://blogs.haverford.edu/alexander-group/2009/06/24/so-where-did-it-all-begin/ Exploring fermions in curved spacetime and the cosmic microwave background at the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (IFCA). Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.haverford.edu/alexander-group/2009/06/24/so-where-did-it-all-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Gary 1981 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:34:21 +0000 http://blogs.haverford.edu/blogs/alexander-group/?p=12#comment-7 Bell Labs where Penzias and WIlson worked was not far from the Haverford campus. Back in the day a key researcher on CMB was Bruce Patridge, recently retired Dean. I even heard rumors that he had a radio detector set up on the soccer field behind Stokes. You might invite him to do an historical blog post on the early days of radio astronomy before you could have loads of satellite observations.

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