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Timeline of cosmic microwave background astronomy
- 1934 - Richard Tolman shows that black-body radiation in an expanding universe cools but remains thermal
- 1941 - Andrew McKellar uses the excitation of CN doublet lines to measure that the "effective temperature of space" is about 2.3 K
- 1948 - George Gamow, Ralph Alpher, and Robert Herman predict that a Big Bang universe will have a black-body cosmic microwave background with temperature about 5 K
- 1955 - Tigran Shmaonov finds excess microwave emission with a temperature of roughly 3 K
- 1964 - A. G. Doroshkevich and Igor Dmitrievich Novikov write an unnoticed paper suggesting microwave searches for the black-body radiation predicted by Gamow, Alpher, and Herman
- 1965 - Arno Penzias, Robert Wilson, Bernie Burke, Robert Dicke, and James Peebles discover the cosmic microwave background radiation
- 1966 - Rainer Sachs and Arthur Wolfe theoretically predict microwave background fluctuation amplitudes created by gravitational potential variations between observers and the last scattering surface (see Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect)
- 1968 - Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama theoretically predict microwave background fluctuation amplitudes created by photons traversing time-dependent potential wells
- 1969 - R. A. Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich study the inverse Compton scattering of microwave background photons by hot electrons (see Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect)
- 1990 - The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite shows that the microwave background has a nearly perfect black-body spectrum and thereby strongly constrains the density of the intergalactic medium
- 1992 - The COBE satellite discovers anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background
- 2003 - the WMAP satellite produces a high resolution map of the cosmic microwave background.
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