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Penzias
Arno Penzias, an American radio astronomer. Together with Robert Wilson he discovered the cosmic microwave background by accident and won the Nobel Prize for it.
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
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- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
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Arno Penzias, an American radio astronomer at Bell Labs. In 1964, together with Robert Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background by accident, and both shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for it.