Awards & Winners

Arno Allan Penzias

Date of Birth 26-April-1933
Place of Birth Munich
(Germany, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Arno Penzias, Arno Penzias, PhD
Profession Scientist, Astronomer, Physicist
Arno Allan Penzias is an American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology.

Awards by Arno Allan Penzias

Check all the awards nominated and won by Arno Allan Penzias.

1978


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation)

1977


Henry Draper Medal
(For their discovery of the cosmic microwave radiation (a remnant of the very early universe), and their leading role in the discovery of interstellar molecules.)