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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 392,335 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Arno Allan Penzias is the 127th most popular physicist (down from 112th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Germany (down from 405th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Physicist.

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

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  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.27

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  • 3.35

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 127 out of 717. Before him are C. F. Powell, Pavel Cherenkov, Owen Chamberlain, Leo Szilard, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. After him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Glover Barkla, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Maurice Wilkins, Ernest Lawrence, and Igor Tamm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 28. Before him are Lina Medina, Paul Biya, Krzysztof Penderecki, Heinrich Rohrer, Costa-Gavras, and Elinor Ostrom. After him are Wilbur Smith, Richard Rogers, Kim Novak, Philip Zimbardo, Álvaro Siza Vieira, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Among people deceased in 2024, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 4. Before him are Franz Beckenbauer, Mário Zagallo, and Sebastián Piñera. After him are Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Frank Farian, Niklaus Wirth, Carl Weathers, Luigi Riva, Johan Galtung, Kurt Hamrin, and Hage Geingob.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 475 out of 6,142. Before him are Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Wassily Leontief (1906), and Ulrich von Hutten (1488). After him are Adolf Galland (1912), Johann Bayer (1572), Richard von Weizsäcker (1920), Adolf Windaus (1876), Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (1892), and Sophia of Nassau (1836).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Arno Allan Penzias ranks 22. Before him are James Franck (1882), Walther Bothe (1891), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Julius von Mayer (1814), and Ernst Abbe (1840). After him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), Hans Geiger (1882), and Polykarp Kusch (1911).

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