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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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    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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    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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  • Zuckerman, and Patrick Palmer find interstellar formaldehyde 1970 — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson find interstellar carbon monoxide 1970 — George Carruthers...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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