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  1. "Arno A. Penzias, who fled Nazi Germany in childhood, settled in the United States and in 1978 shared the Nobel Prize in physics for helping find vital early evidence of the Big Bang Theory about the creation of the universe, died Jan. 22(...) He was 90."

    #BigBang #CosmicMicrowaveBackground #ArnoPenzias

    washingtonpost.com/obituaries/

  2. Arno Penzias dies at 90; helped find traces of Big Bang

    Along with a Bell Labs colleague, he conducted groundbreaking work widely considered fundamental to one of the landmark discoveries of modern science.

    ✍️ Martin Weil for the Washington Post
    washingtonpost.com/obituaries/

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