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Penzias, Arno Allan, 1933–, German-American physicist, b. Munich, Germany, Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1962. He fled Nazi Germany with his family and after finishing school began work at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1964 he and colleague Robert Wilson Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936–, American radio astronomer, b. Houston, Tex., Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1962. In 1964 he and co-researcher Arno Penzias began monitoring radio waves in the Milky Way galaxy with a radio telescope and discovered
..... Click the link for more information. began monitoring radio waves in the Milky Way galaxy with a radio telescope and discovered cosmic background radiation. Their discovery has been used as evidence in support of the "big bang" theory that the universe was created by a giant explosion billions of years ago (see cosmology cosmology, area of science that aims at a comprehensive theory of the structure and evolution of the entire physical universe. Modern Cosmological Theories ..... Click the link for more information. ). Penzias and Wilson shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Kapitza Kapitza, Peter , 1894–1984, Russian physicist, educated at the polytechnic institute of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and at Cambridge. He developed equipment (for a laboratory at Cambridge) capable of producing very powerful magnetic fields for his ..... Click the link for more information. . Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | His progress (or lack of it) was set out against the likes of Roger Penrose's Singularity Theorem for collapsing stars, Nobel Prize winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson and his disbelieving professor, Fred Hoyle. Michael Brandon plays Arno Penzias, an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose work provided physical evidence to support Hawking's Big Bang theory. He begins by taking a look back at numerous theories about the formation of the universe before concentrating on George Garnow's now widely accepted Big Bang idea, which was originally scoffed at until the accidental discovery of cosmic raditation by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965. |
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