Arno Allan Penzias
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 91 |
Date of birth | April 26,1933 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Munich |
Germany | |
Spouse | Anne Pearl Barras |
Parents | Karl Penzias |
Justine Eisenreich Penzias | |
Job | Astronomer |
Physicist | |
Education | The City College of New York |
Columbia University | |
Brooklyn Technical High School | |
Awards | Henry Draper Medal |
Nobel Prize in Physics | |
Harold Pender Award | |
IRI Medal | |
Known for | Cosmic Microwave Background |
Siblings | Gunther Penzias |
Nationality | American |
Books | Anne Pearl Barras |
Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-tech World | |
Harmony: Business, Technology, and the End of Paperwork | |
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ID | 468498 |
Arno Allan Penzias Life story
Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology.