In which field did Arno Allan Penzias win his Nobel Prize?
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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arno Allan Penzias in recognition of his groundbreaking discovery made with Robert Woodrow Wilson. Using a radio telescope, they detected the cosmic microwave background radiation, the remnant energy from the Big Bang, which confirmed Theory of the expanding universe.
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