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Arno Allan Penzias — Age & Birthday

Born: 26 April 1933 · Died: 22 January 2024 · Age at death: 90

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Arno Allan Penzias died aged 90. He was born on 26 April 1933 and died on 22 January 2024.

German-born physicist who discovered cosmic microwave background radiation

Did you know?He fled Nazi Germany as a child on the Kindertransport before settling in the United States.

Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".

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Age at death: 90
Would be: 93
Years since death: 2

Born: April 26, 1933 · Munich, Germany
Died: January 22, 2024
Cause of death: Alzheimer's disease
Nationality: German
Known for: Science

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