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Princeton - News - Physicist David Wilkinson, explorer of Big Bang afterglow, dies |
 | | PRINCETON, N.J. -- David Todd Wilkinson, a professor of physics whose research helped shape scientists' understanding of the structure of the universe and whose open and friendly manner made him a beloved colleague and teacher, died Thursday after a long bout with cancer. |
 | | Wilkinson, Princeton's Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Emeritus, was a key figure in making the astronomical observations that, in the 1960s, gave a solid basis for the Big Bang theory of the universe. |
 | | Wilkinson is survived by his wife Eunice of Princeton, son Kent of San Antonio Texas, daughter Wendy Gordon of Lambertville, N.J., stepchildren Marla Dowell of Boulder, Co., Michael Dowell of Chicago and Janice Dowell of Bowling Green, Ohio, as well as five grandchildren. |
| www.princeton.edu /pr/news/02/q3/0906-wilkinson.htm (902 words) |
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