Arno Allan Penzias
April 26, 1933 –January 22, 2024
Astronomer, Physicist
Lived 90 years
- Born in
- Munich
- Passed away in
- San Francisco
Arno Allan Penzias (; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) 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".
Notable works: cosmic microwave background Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Harold Pender Award, Henry Draper Medal, Herschel Medal, Fellow of the American Physical Society, IRI Medal, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, George E. Pake Prize, Karl G. Jansky Lectureship, honorary doctorate of Paris Observatory, PSL University Education: Columbia University, City College of New York, Brooklyn Technical High School
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