ArnoPenzias, born in 1933, German-born American radio engineer who, with American engineer Robert Wilson, was the first to detect the cosmic microwave background radiation.
Penzias and Wilson shared half of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery.
Penzias and Wilson excluded all known terrestrial sources of such radiation and still found that the noise they were detecting was one hundred times more powerful than they could account for.
Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics.
In January 1940, the Penzias’ arrived and settled in New York.
Penzias and Wilson were awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research, sharing the prize with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, who won the award for his unrelated basic inventions and discoveries in the field of low-temperature physics.
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