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