Arno Allan Penzias
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1978for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
- Citizenship
Germany
statelessness
United States- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 4/26/1933
- place of birth
- Munich
- date of death
- 1/22/2024
- place of death
- San Francisco
- Lived
- 90 years
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- occupation
- astronomer
- physicist
- field of work
- cosmology
- physics
- educated at
- City College of New York
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science
- Brooklyn Technical High School
- Columbia University
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- City College of New York
- employer
- Bell Labs
- member of
- National Academy of Engineering
- start time: 1990
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1975
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1975
- American Physical Society
- International Astronomical Union
- National Academy of Engineering
- doctoral student
- Pierre Encrenaz
- notable work
- cosmic microwave background