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Arno Allan Penzias

German-born American physicist

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born
1933
died
2024
age at death
90
known for
astronomer, physicist

1933 – 2024

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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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