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Who did Arno Allan Penzias share the Nobel Prize in Physics with in 1978?

  • Robert Woodrow Wilson

  • Albert Einstein

  • Richard Feynman

  • Niels Bohr

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The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 was jointly awarded to Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, a faint remnant glow from the Big Bang, the prevailing cosmological model for the universe's early development. This crucial finding supported the Big Bang hypothesis and supplied substantial observational evidence for the expanding universe theory.
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