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. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.