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Penzias
Arno Allan. born 1933, US astrophysicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1978) with Robert W. Wilson for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation


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In 1965, however, in a project unrelated to the origins of the universe, physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected the cosmic microwave background radiation, a radiation coming from every direction in the sky, as though the entire universe was the source.
At about the same time, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.
Palade Physiology/Medicine 1974 Linus Pauling (two awards) Chemistry 1954 [*] Peace 1962 [*] Arno Penzias Physics 1978 Martin Perl Physics 1995 Stanley B.
 
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