Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Prize share: 1/2
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Arno Allan Penzias
Prize share: 1/4
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Robert Woodrow Wilson
Prize share: 1/4
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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