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    Arno Allan Penzias (/ˈpɛnziəs/; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he...
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    accidental discovery of the CMB in 1965 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s...
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    major development in modern physical cosmology. In 1964, US physicist Arno Allan Penzias and radio-astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave...
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    research work of two radio astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. In 1965, while using this antenna, Penzias and Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave...
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    Holmdel Horn Antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, with which Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered cosmic microwave background radiation in...
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    chance result from work by two teams less than 60 miles apart. In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson were trying to detect radio wave echoes with...
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  • Zuckerman, and Patrick Palmer find interstellar formaldehyde 1970 — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson find interstellar carbon monoxide 1970 — George Carruthers...
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    discovered using the Holmdel Horn Antenna at a Bell Labs facility by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, both of whom won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their...
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  • Köhler*, Physiology or Medicine, 1984 Georg Wittig, Chemistry, 1979 Arno Penzias*, Physics, 1978 Henry Kissinger*, Peace, 1978 Ernst Otto Fischer, Chemistry...
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    (voice) DVD movie The Lost Battalion General Robert Alexander 2004 Hawking Arno Penzias 2005 Calling All Engines! US Narrator 2006 The Detonator Commander Flint...
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    derived from measurements based on the cosmic distance ladder. In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson serendipitously discovered the cosmic background radiation...
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    Microwave Background Radiation. This was observationally confirmed by Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs using a horn radio telescope. While...
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    on to become prominent figures in public life, with two (Walter Kohn, Arno Penzias) becoming Nobel Prize winners. These include: Benjamin Abeles (from Czechoslovakia)...
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    cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered at the site by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. On June 12, 1968, the Garden State Arts Center opened...
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    invisible to direct observation. The solution to this problem came when Arno Penzias, Keith Jefferts, and Robert Wilson identified CO in the star-forming...
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  • His assumptions were later proved when two physicists at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, found unexpected microwave radiation not only from...
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  • missiologist. Jackie O'Gorman, 80, Irish hurler (Cratloe, Clare). Arno Allan Penzias, 90, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate...
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    on to become Nobel laureates in physics: Robert Hofstadter in 1961, Arno Penzias in 1978, and Leon Lederman in 1988. Albert Einstein gave the first of...
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    Dicke radiometer to measure the cosmic microwave background. In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at the Crawford Hill location of Bell Telephone...
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    background radiation (CMBR) discovered in 1964 by radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. This faint background radiation, which fills the universe...
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    These two theories were active contenders until the 1965 discovery, by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, of the cosmic microwave background radiation, a fact...
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    background radiation) temperature of 40 K (ref: Helge Kragh). 1965: Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson measure the temperature to be approximately...
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  • Mond, chemist and industrialist Sir Rudolf Peierls, solid state theory Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of CMB, Nobel Prize (1978) Alfred Philippson, geologist...
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  • Don Lassetter, 90, baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) (b. 1933) Arno Allan Penzias, 90, physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (1978) (b...
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  • 1676 by timing the motions of Jupiter's satellite Io with a telescope Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detect the cosmic microwave background radiation, giving...
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    the radiation. They were preceded by the accidental detection made by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson (also using a Dicke radiometer), who were working...
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    the horizon problem. The microwave background radiation discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson appeared extremely uniform, with almost no...
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  • Nirenberg and Philip Leder deciphered the rest of the genetic code. 1965 – Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson find cosmic microwave background radiation, evidence...
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    Christiaan Alexander Muller Jan Oort Joseph Lade Pawsey Ruby Payne-Scott Arno Penzias Grote Reber Martin Ryle Govind Swarup Gart Westerhout Paul Wild Robert...
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    Holmdel constructed by Bell Labs for the Echo project was later used by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson for their Nobel Prize-winning discovery of...
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