Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
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Arno Penzias accidentally stumbled onto cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964—the kind of discovery that lands you a Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Robert Woodrow Wilson.
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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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