Physicist

Arno Allan Penzias

German-born American physicist

1933 - 2024

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His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2024). Arno Allan Penzias is the 140th most popular physicist (down from 129th in 2024), the 353rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 420th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Physicist.

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

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Arno Allan Penzias ranks #353 among 8,184 people in Pantheon born in Germany, inside the top 5% of that group.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 140 out of 863. Before him are James Franck, Robert Coleman Richardson, Emilio Segrè, Emil Lenz, George Gamow, and C. V. Raman. After him are Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Roger Penrose, Louis Néel, Rudolf Mössbauer, and Kai Siegbahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 21. Before him are Jalal Talabani, Tinto Brass, James Brown, H. D. Deve Gowda, Just Fontaine, and Nina Simone. After him are Susan Sontag, Amartya Sen, Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, Philip Roth, and Elinor Ostrom. Among people deceased in 2024, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 19. Before him are Alberto Fujimori, Peter Higgs, Maria Branyas, Daniel Kahneman, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, and Anouk Aimée. After him are Ram Narayan, Hassan Nasrallah, Akira Toriyama, Françoise Hardy, Louis Gossett Jr., and Arnold Rüütel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 353 out of 8,184. Before him are Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Max Horkheimer (1895), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Christian V of Denmark (1646), and Otto of Bavaria (1848). After him are Paul Hindemith (1895), Klaus Meine (1948), Hermann Hoth (1885), Hans Fischer (1881), Julius Streicher (1885), and Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850).

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Among Physicists In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 21. Before him are Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Walther Bothe (1891), Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Carl Zeiss (1816), and James Franck (1882). After him are Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), George Paget Thomson (1892), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), and Polykarp Kusch (1911).

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