What nationality was Arno Allan Penzias?
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American physicist Arno Allan Penzias shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with American physicist Robert Woodrow Wilson for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, the remnant thermal radiation of the Big Bang, the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from which it originated roughly 13.8 billion years ago.
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