Arno Allan Penzias
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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Background
- Born in
- Munich
- Educated at
- Columbia UniversityCity College of New YorkBrooklyn Technical High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Henry Draper Medal🏆 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Charles Hard Townes
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Pierre Encrenaz
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1933
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