(1978) Arno Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias (born 26 April 1933) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Penzias and Wilson received the 1978 Nobel Prize, sharing it with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Kapitsa\'s work was unrelated to Penzias and Wilson\'s). In cosmology, cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation (also CMBR, CBR, MBR, and relic radiation) is thermal radiation filling the observable universe almost uniformly. The CMB\'s serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s.
