Historical FigureMale
Arno Allan Penzias
1933 – 2024
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryArno 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".
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
April 26, 1933
Munich
Date of death
January 22, 2024
San Francisco
Citizenship
Germany · statelessness · United States
Occupations & fields
astronomerphysicist
Awards & honours
Nobel Prize in PhysicsHarold Pender AwardHenry Draper MedalHerschel MedalFellow of the American Physical SocietyIRI Medal
Notable works
cosmic microwave background
- Field and occupation
- americký fyzik
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