…(1856–1924), 28th president of the US 1913–21; full name Thomas Woodrow Wilson. A Democrat, he eventually took the US into World War I in 1917 and later played a leading role in the peace negotiations and the formation of the League of Nations. The Senate, however, failed to ratify the peace treaty. Semi-incapacitated by a stroke in 1919, he did not seek re-election. Nobel Peace Prize (1920)…
…(1912–1967), US folk singer and songwriter; full name Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. Social injustice and the hardships of the Depression inspired many of his songs, including "This Land Is Your Land" (1940) and "Deportee" (1948). His son Arlo (1947-), also a folk singer and songwriter, is best known for his talking blues song "Alice’s Restaurant Massacree" (1967)…
…(b.1933), German-born American astrophysicist. In 1964, while using a low-noise horn antenna in connection with satellite communications, he and his co-worker Robert Woodrow Wilson (b.1936) detected a mysterious persistent signal identified as cosmic background radiation and serving as the most important evidence to date for the theory of the Big Bang. For this he and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978…
…(1856–1924), 28th president of the US 1913–21; full name Thomas Woodrow Wilson. A Democrat, he eventually took the US into World War I in 1917 and later played a leading role in the peace negotiations and the formation of the League of Nations. The Senate, however, failed to ratify the peace treaty. Semi-incapacitated by a stroke in 1919, he did not seek re-election. Nobel Peace Prize (1920)…
