The First Proof of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Professor Silk describes how to scientists desperately tried to erase proof of the Cosmic Microwave Background before they knew what they had found.

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Professor Joseph Silk

Professor of Astronomy

Joseph Silk FRS, is a research scientist at the Service d’Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay and the Institut d’Astrophysique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

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