Arno Penzias shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1978 with Robert Wilson for a discovery that supported the big bang theory of the universe. The two radio astronomers at what was then American Telephone & Telegraph's (AT&T) Bell Telephone...

Arno Allan Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, in 1933. His family fled from the Nazi regime and came to the United States. Penzias attended Columbia University and, in 1961, went to work at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey. Penzias had...

At various times---and sometimes all at once---German-born American scientist Arno Penzias (born 1933) has been a researcher, educator, and businessman. Because of that, he has often been called a "renaissance man," someone who excels a nd exerts...

German-born American astrophysicist Arno Penzias shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1978 with Robert Wilson for a discovery that supported the big bang the ory of the universe. The two radio astronomers at what was then American Telephone &...

1933- German-American physicist who, with R. W. Wilson, first detected cosmic background radiation. This diffuse glow coming from all over the sky is most likely a remnant of the Big Bang, and is one of the strongest pieces of evidence supporting the...

Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and a co-winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. Penzias was born in Munich, Germany. At age six he was among the Jewish children evacuated to Britain as part of the Kindertransport...