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Was Arno Allan Penzias awarded the Nobel Prize early in his career?

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Yes, Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978, just seven years after their pivotal discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, a major confirmation of the Big Bang theory and widely recognised as one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.
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