Arno Allan Penzias
American physicist (1933–2024) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arno Allan Penzias (/ˈpɛnziəs/; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
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Born | (1933-04-26)April 26, 1933 Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
Died | January 22, 2024(2024-01-22) (aged 90) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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Known for | Cosmic microwave background radiation |
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Sherry Levit (m. 1996) |
Children | 5 |
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Fields | Physics |
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Thesis | A tunable maser radiometer and the measurement of 21 cm line emission from free hydrogen in the Pegasus I cluster of galaxies (1962) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles H. Townes |
Doctoral students | Pierre Encrenaz |
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