Arno Allan Penzias
American physicist
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. Wikipedia
Born: 1933, Munich, Germany
Died: January 22, 2024 (age 90 years), San Francisco, CA
Nationality: American and German
Spouse: Anne Pearl Barras (m. 1954)
Awards: Henry Draper Medal (1977), Nobel Prize in Physics (1978), Harold Pender Award (1991), and more
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