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Which prize did they receive for their efforts?

  • Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Pulitzer Prize

  • Nobel Prize in Medicine

  • Nobel Prize in Physics

Answer

In 1975, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson for their discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which was a major confirmation of the Big Bang theory. The Big Bang theory is the leading scientific theory for how the universe began, and it states that the universe was once very hot and dense, and that it has been expanding and cooling ever since.
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