Person:Arno Penzias

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Arno Penzias
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Date of birth 26 April 1933
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Date of death 22 January 2024
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Overview

American physicist (1933–2024) who, with Robert Woodrow Wilson, discovered the cosmic microwave background with the Holmdel horn antenna in 1965; shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics