# Arno Allan Penzias

> He found the echo of the Big Bang by accident — static that turned out to be light from the universe's first moments, still traveling through space 13 billion years later.

*German-born American physicist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1933-04-26
- **Died:** 2024-01-22
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Arno Allan Penzias was born April 26, 1933, and became a physicist and radio astronomer working with sensitive instruments meant to pick up faint signals from space. In 1978, he and Robert Woodrow Wilson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering cosmic microwave background radiation — the afterglow of the universe's birth, a faint hum filling every corner of the sky. What they'd stumbled on while troubleshooting interference became the strongest evidence for the Big Bang, rewriting cosmology. He died January 22, 2024.

## Fame
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## Topics
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