Arno Allan Penzias
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Arno Allan Penzias was an American physicist and radio astronomer. He shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Woodrow Wilson "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".
Penzias in 1982
Penzias and Wilson, standing under the 15 m (49 ft 3 in) Holmdel Horn Antenna in New Jersey that brought their most notable discovery
Henry Draper Medal
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The Henry Draper Medal is awarded every 4 years by the United States National Academy of Sciences "for investigations in astronomical physics". Named after Henry Draper, the medal is awarded with a gi
Samuel Pierpont Langley, who was the first recipient of the medal in 1886 "for numerous investigations of a high order of merit in solar physics, and especially in the domain of radiant energy"
