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Crawford Hill is located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey. It is Monmouth County's highest point, standing at least 380 feet (116 m) above sea level. The top portion of the hill is owned by Lucent Technologies, and formerly by Bell Laboratories. Map of Holmdel Township in Monmouth County Holmdel Township is a Township located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... Monmouth County is a county located in the state of New Jersey. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... On September 30, 1996, AT&T spun off its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc. ... Bell Telephone Laboratories or Bell Labs was originally the research and development arm of the United States Bell System, and was the premier corporate facility of its type, developing a range of revolutionary technologies from telephone switches to specialized coverings for telephone cables, to the transistor. ...


Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Labs used the Horn Antenna on Crawford Hill to take measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation. They earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for these efforts that supported the Big Bang theory. For more information, see Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, American physicist. ... Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American physicist. ... A horn antenna is used for the transmission and reception of microwave signals. ... In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation (most often abbreviated CMB but occasionally CMBR, CBR or MBR) is a form of electromagnetic radiation discovered in 1965. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... According to the Big Bang theory, the universe emerged from an extremely dense and hot state (bottom). ... This article concerns the accidental discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. ...


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The Hill does not have a supermarket and construction of one, to be operated by an African American, is seen as yet another major step to making the Hill a self-sustaining community once more.
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