Arno Allan Penzias
1933-
German-American physicist who, with R. W. Wilson, first detected cosmic background radiation. This diffuse glow coming from all over the sky is most likely a remnant of the Bi...
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Penzias, Arno (1933- )
German-born American astrophysicist
Arno Penzias shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1978 with Robert Wilson for a discovery that supported the big bang the ory of the univers...
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Arno Allan Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, in 1933. His family fled from the Nazi regime and came to the United States. Penzias attended Columbia University and, in 1961, went to work at Bell Tel...
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At various times---and sometimes all at once---German-born American scientist Arno Penzias (born 1933) has been a researcher, educator, and businessman. Because of that, he has often been called a "re...
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Arno Penzias shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1978 with Robert Wilson for a discovery that supported the big bang theory of the universe. The two radio astronomers at what was then American Teleph...
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