Cosmic Microwave Background
Penzias detects unexplained microwave antenna noise that will be identified as cosmic background radiation
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Arno Allan Penzias Biography and Timeline
Follow Arno Allan Penzias through 3 dated historical records for United States of America.
Arno Allan Penzias, historical timeline
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1964–1978Years on this page
1964
1965
Cosmic Microwave Background
Penzias publishes the measurement of excess antenna temperature from the cosmic microwave background
1978
Nobel Prize
Penzias receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for the microwave background discovery
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