Arno Allan Penzias
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Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist, radio astronomer, and Nobel Laureate in physics who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation with Robert Woodrow Wilson, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology.
Early life and education
Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, and the son of Justine (née Eisenreich) and Karl Penzias, who owned a leather company. His grandparents immigrated from Poland and were one of the Reichenbach Strasse Shul's leaders. Both he and his brother Gunther were among the Jewish children evacuated to Britain as part of the Kindertransport rescue mission at age six. His parents left Nazi Germany for the United States some time later, and the family settled in New York City's Garment District in 1940. Penzias became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1951 and went on to study chemistry at the City College of New York, where he did a degree in physics and graduated 1954 with a physics degree, ranking near the top of his class.
Penzias served in the US Army Signal Corps for two years after graduating. This culminated in a research assistantship at the Columbia University Radiation Laboratory, which was then heavily involved in microwave physics. Penzias was apprenticed to Charles Townes, who later invented the maser.
Penzias first registered at Columbia as a graduate student in 1956. In 1962, he received a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.
Career
Penzias went on to work at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he collaborated with Robert Woodrow Wilson on ultra-sensitive cryogenic microwave receivers intended for radio astronomy research. The pair encountered radio noise in 1964 while building their most effective antenna/receiver system, which they were unable to explain. It was much less active than the Milky Way's radiation and was isotropic, so they assumed that their device would be susceptible to interference by terrestrial sources. They tried, and then rejected, the argument that the radio noise emanated from New York City. The microwave horn antenna revealed that it was full of bat and pigeon droppings (which Penzias described as "white dielectric material"). The stench was still present when the pair cut the dung buildup. Penzias contacted Robert Dicke, who said that it could be the background radiation predicted by some cosmological theories after rejecting all sources of interference. Penzias and Wilson referred to their findings in the Astrophysical Journal, with Dicke suggesting the interpretation as the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the radio remnant of the Big Bang. Astronomers were able to confirm the Big Bang and correct some of their previous assumptions about it.
In 1975, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Wilson and Penzias were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978, alongside Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Kapitsa's research on Low-temperature physics was unrelated to Penzias and Wilson's). The two had been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 as the Henry Draper Medal. Penzias received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1979. He is also the recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. He received the IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Institute in 1998.
The Nürnberger Astronomische Gesellschaft e.V. celebrated its 100th anniversary on April 26, 2019. (NAG) At the Regiomontanus-Sternwarte, Nuremberg's public observatory, we launched the 3-meter radio telescope and devoted it to Arno Penzias.
Penzias has lived in Highland Park, New Jersey, for the past. David Hessler, PhD, and Mindy Penzias Dirks, PhD, and Rabbi Shifra (Laurie) Weiss-Penzias have all been married. He currently works as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates.