Arno Penzians

  • Arno Penzias, a German-born American physicist and radio astronomer, is known as the 'smoking gun proof' of the Big Bang theory.
  • Penzias and his colleague Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in 1965 while working at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
  • The radiation was causing excess noise in a radio receiver they were building, which became known as 'CMB radiation'.
  • This finding is considered the missing evidence that supports the Big Bang theory, which has since become the standard model of ....
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