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Penzias

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Penzias [ˈpɛntsɪəs ˈpɛnz-]
n
(Biographies / Penzias, Arno Allan (1933 M, US, SCIENCE: physicist) Arno Allan. born 1933, US astrophysicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1978) with Robert W. Wilson for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
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