The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Awarded on: 1978-10-17
"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
Affiliations:
- Bell Laboratories – Holmdel, NJ, USA
Arno Allan Penzias
Born: 1933-04-26 in Munich, Germany
Gender: male
Field: American physicist (1933–2024)
Biography
Arno Allan Penzias was an American physicist and radio astronomer. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".