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Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias 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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Born 26 April 1933 · Died 22 January 2024 · Q172877

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The Bible talks of purposeful creation. What we have, however, is an amazing amount of order; and when we see order, in our experience it normally reflects purpose.
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Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.
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2024· 4 entries

Jan 22, 2024Documented record86% confidence

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Died 2024-01-22.

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“Astronomy leads us to an unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly-improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.”

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“Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.”

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“The Bible talks of purposeful creation. What we have, however, is an amazing amount of order; and when we see order, in our experience it normally reflects purpose.”

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2023· 1 entry

Sep 11, 2023Documented record66% confidence

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The Radio Club of America said announced it had named an award, the Dr

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2019· 1 entry

Apr 26, 2019Documented record66% confidence

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The Nürnberger Astronomische Gesellschaft e

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2005· 1 entry

Jan 1, 2005Documented record87% confidence

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“The more I thought about it, the more attractive this plan for my post-retirement life became,”

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1999· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1999Documented record75% confidence

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“The Designed 'Just-so' Universe”

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1998· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1998Documented record84% confidence

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Won IRI Medal (1998).

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Was awarded the IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute

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1996· 1 entry

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Married Silicon Valley executive Sherry Levit, becoming stepfather to her son Carson and daughter Victoria

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1991· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1991Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Harold Pender Award (1991).

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1990· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1990Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded George E. Pake Prize (1990).

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1983· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1983).

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1979· 1 entry

1979Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Penzias received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement

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1978· 2 entries

Dec 10, 1978Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.

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Jun 15, 1978Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1978).

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1977· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1977Documented record84% confidence

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Won Herschel Medal (1977).

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Jun 15, 1977Documented record84% confidence

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Won Henry Draper Medal (1977).

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Penzias and Wilson received the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences

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1976· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1976Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctorate of Paris Observatory, PSL University (1976).

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1975· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1975Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1975).

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1964· 1 entry

1964Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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On building their most sensitive antenna/receiver system, the pair encountered radio noise that they could not explain

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1956· 1 entry

1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Where he earned a master's degree and a PhD in physics, the latter in 1962

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1954· 1 entry

1954Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Penzias married Anne Barras; the couple had three children, David, Mindy, and Laurie, before they divorced

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1951· 1 entry

1951Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Enrolled at the City College of New York to study chemistry, but he changed majors to physics and graduated in 1954, ranked near the top of his class

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1946· 1 entry

1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Penzias became a US citizen

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1933· 1 entry

Apr 26, 1933Documented record86% confidence

Arno Allan Penzias

Born 1933-04-26.

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