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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 was divided, one half awarded to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics", the other half jointly to Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".

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