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Is there a cosmic phenomenon named after Arno Allan Penzias?

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The answer is no. There is no cosmic phenomenon named after Arno Allan Penzias. He is an American physicist who, along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, the leftover thermal radiation from the Big Bang, which earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978. However, this phenomenon is not named after Penzias or Wilson.
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