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Arno Allan Penzias ( / ˈpɛnziəs /; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
Feb 22, 2024 · Penzias was an astrophysicist who discovered the radio-frequency glow from the sky that confirmed the Big Bang model of the Universe. He also found interstellar molecules such as CO and deuterium, and advised on information technology and alternative energy.
Jan 22, 2024 · Arno A. Penzias, whose astronomical probes yielded incontrovertible evidence of a dynamic, evolving universe with a clear point of origin, confirming what became known as the Big Bang theory,...
Jan 24, 2024 · Physicist Arno Penzias, who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background, helping to confirm the Big Bang theory of the universe's beginning, died on Monday at age 90.
Arno Penzias was a German American astrophysicist who shared one-half of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery of a faint electromagnetic radiation throughout the universe; the other half of the prize went to Pyotr Kapitsa.
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Jan 23, 2024 · Arno A. Penzias, who fled Nazi Germany in childhood, settled in the United States and in 1978 shared the Nobel Prize in physics for helping find vital early evidence supporting the big-bang...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Arno Allan Penzias was born in Munich Germany on April 26, 1933, and died in San Francisco, California at the age of 90 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on January 22, 2024.
