Science · Engineering & invention
Peter Roll
Physicist; microwave-background collaborator
Also known as P. G. Roll
Who they are
Peter Roll worked with David Wilkinson on the Princeton radiometer described in the 1965 paper Cosmic Black-Body Radiation. With Robert Dicke and James Peebles, they coauthored an interpretation connecting microwave measurements to the early universe. His inclusion highlights instrument building within a discovery often told through a smaller set of names.
He connects the microwave-background interpretation to the Princeton instrument effort.
Selected contributions
Selected works
Academic paper · 1965 · Historical journal article
Cosmic Black-Body Radiation
Dicke, Peebles, Roll and Wilkinson connect background microwave radiation with a hot early universe. Read alongside the Penzias–Wilson measurement, it distinguishes cosmological interpretation from the observational report.
Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Specified supporting passages inspected; detailed alternative cosmological calculations not independently evaluated. Reuses the input’s documented prior inspection: Specified supporting passages inspected; detailed alternative cosmological calculations not independently evaluated. No fresh full-work reread in this directory pass.
In the timeline
Biography sources
- Cosmic Black-Body Radiation ↗The Astrophysical Journal / American Astronomical Society; NASA ADS scan