Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias, Nobel Laureate

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".

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978

Awarded on: 1978-10-17

"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"

Affiliations:

  • Bell LaboratoriesHolmdel, NJ, USA