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• Hij is geboren op 26 april 1933 in Munchen, Bavaria, Germany.
• Beroep: in het jaar 1978 in Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Hij is overleden op 21 januari 2024 in San Francisco, California, USA, hij was toen 90 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Karol Karl Penzias en Justyna Eisenreich

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Immigrate from Liverpool, UK 23 Dec 1939 to NY 3 Jan 1940 on "MVGeorgic"; Joined uncle Leopold Gelbart;
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Arno Penzias was born in Munich on April 26, 1933. His father, who owned and operated a leather wholesale business, provided what Dr. Penzias described as a comfortable middle-class living for his family. His mother, a Catholic, had converted to her husband’s Jewish faith.
His family was sent to the Polish border in 1938 as part of a Nazi program to deport Jews of Polish background and who did not hold German passports. By his account, the family missed the deadline by an hour at the border and was turned back, on grounds that no more immigrants were to be accepted.
That, the family believed, may have saved their lives. When his father was ordered to leave the country within six months, he began making arrangements for his sons to leave for Britain as part of the kindertransport program to rescue German-Jewish children.
On leaving home in 1939, 6-year-old Arno said he told his slightly younger brother in German, “Jetzt sind wir allein” — “now we are alone.”
The family was reunited soon thereafter in England before sailing to the United States in December 1939 on a ship, on which his father had presciently booked passage 18 months earlier. They settled in the Bronx the next month, where his parents became superintendents of an apartment building. His father later worked in the carpentry shop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his mother cleaned homes and did sewing at a coat factory.
“Arno was always a thinker and very ambitious,” his father told the Palm Beach Post after his son received the Nobel. He recalled that Arno, on his own, found out that he was eligible to attend Brooklyn Technical High School, which had a renowned science and engineering program. From the Bronx, Arno trekked three hours a day by foot and subway to the school. “He just thought [school] would give him more,” his father said. “The travel didn’t mean anything to him.”
Arno became a naturalized citizen in 1946, adding “Allan,” the Americanized name he liked to be called, as his middle name. At his father’s behest, he studied chemistry in the hope of earning a good living in engineering. But during his freshman year at tuition-free City College of New York, he switched to physics because he was bored by chemistry.
“Physics was unglamorous then,” he told the New Yorker. “This was before Sputnik. … The top kids seemed to be attracted to it for aesthetic reasons. I didn’t get into it, at first, for those reasons, but I found that, as I studied it, it was something I liked. The competition was extraordinarily tough.”
He graduated in 1954, then spent two years working on radar in the Army Signal Corps, before obtaining a master’s degree in physics in 1958 and a doctorate four years later, both from Columbia University.
Much of his early work, including his Army service, involved him with microwave research and technology, and that placed him on the path that led to the Nobel. At Columbia, the physics department was deeply engaged in microwave research with a faculty that included some of the luminaries of the field. Under one Columbia mentor, Charles Townes, an inventor of the maser, he was immersed in the study of microwaves and radio astronomy.
In 1961, Dr. Penzias joined Bell Laboratories, the research center that was maintained by the old Bell System, and which studied the fundamental science behind such technologies as microwaves, electronic signals and modern telecommunications.
The renowned laboratories in Holmdel, he said, had one-of-a-kind facilities that “made it an ideal place” to finish the radio astronomy observations he had begun but not completed during his Columbia PhD work.
For example, Bell already had a large antenna suitable for radio astronomy. That antenna had been intended for use in communication with Earth satellites. Dr. Penzias described it as a superb tool for pursuing his own interests, and it became available to him. He remained at Bell for 37 years, working in such areas as interstellar chemistry before moving up the management ranks.

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