Arno Allan Penzias

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Arno Allan Penzias
Born (1933-04-26) 26 Aprile 1933 (age 90)
Munich, Germany
NaitionalityUnitit States
Alma materCity College of New York
Columbia Varsity
Kent forCosmic Microwave Backgrund Radiation
Hauf-marrae(s)Anne Pearl Barras (m. 1954; 3 bairns)[1]
AwairdsHenry Draper Medal (1977)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)
Harold Pender Awaird (1991)
IRI Medal (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBell Labs

Arno Allan Penzias (born 26 Aprile 1933) is an American physicist, radio astronomer an Nobel laureate in physics wha is co-discoverer o the cosmic microwave backgrund radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory o cosmology.

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