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Arno Allan Penzias

1933 - 2024

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Arno Allan Penzias (; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arno Allan Penzias has received more than 409,018 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Arno Allan Penzias is the 129th most popular physicist (down from 127th in 2019), the 420th most popular biography from Germany (up from 475th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Physicist.

Penzias is most famous for being the co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 129 out of 851. Before him are Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius von Mayer, C. V. Raman, Val Logsdon Fitch, François Englert, and Robert Coleman Richardson. After him are Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, Felix Bloch, Walther Bothe, and Hideki Yukawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 25. Before him are Heinrich Rohrer, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Mako, Elinor Ostrom, and Francisco Gento. After him are Jayne Mansfield, Krzysztof Penderecki, Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, Abolhassan Banisadr, and Bernardo Provenzano. Among people deceased in 2024, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 12. Before him are Paul Auster, Anouk Aimée, Alice Munro, Ismail Kadare, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, and O. J. Simpson. After him are Françoise Hardy, Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, Akira Toriyama, and Johan Galtung.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 420 out of 7,253. Before him are Traudl Junge (1920), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Robert Ley (1890), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Jürgen Klopp (1967), and Otto of Bavaria (1848). After him are Richard Willstätter (1872), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), Regiomontanus (1436), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), and Ernst Abbe (1840).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 19. Before him are Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), James Franck (1882), and Julius von Mayer (1814). After him are Ernst Abbe (1840), Walther Bothe (1891), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), and Hans Geiger (1882).

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