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Astrophysicist.
From the description of Papers of Arno A. Penzias. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71208767
Biographical Note
1933, April 26 Born, Munich, Germany1939Fled with family from Germany to England 1940Immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in
New York, N.Y.1946Became a naturalized citizen of the United States 1954B.S., College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y.
Married Anne Pearl Barras 19541956 Radar officer, Army Signal Corps 19561958Research assistant, Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Columbia
University, New York, N.Y. 1958M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1961Started thirty-seven year career at Bell Laboratories and its
successor Lucent Technologies 1962 Ph.D. in physics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
1964Discovered with Robert W. Wilson uniform microwave radiation
emanating from all directions in the universe, documenting the Big Bang theory
of the origin of the universe19721976 Director, Radio Research Laboratories, Bell Laboratories
1978Awarded with Robert W. Wilson the Nobel Prize for Physics
19811995Vice president for research, Bell Laboratories and Lucent
Technologies1989 Published Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech
World. New York: Norton 1995 Published Harmony: Business, Technology & Life after
Paperwork. New York: HarperBusiness 19951998Vice president and chief scientist, AT &T Bell
Laboratories and Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories Innovations1998 Retired from Lucent Technologies and became a venture partner
with New Enterprise AssociatesFrom the guide to the Arno A. Penzias Papers, 1931-2006, (bulk 1963-1998), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)Alpher, Ralph.Ash, E. A.Bell Telephone Laboratories.Block, DavidDicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)Encrenaz, Pierre J.Ferris, Timothy.Fleury, Paul A.Friedman, Herbert, 1916-2000Gamow, George, 1904-1968Gazalé, Midhat J., 1929-Gilder, George F., 1939-Herman, Robert, 1914-Inose, Hiroshi, 1927-Julesz, BelaLucent Technologies (Firm)Morrison, PhilipNachtigall, Dieter, 1927-Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)Queisser, Hans J., 1931-Radner, Roy, 1927-Shoji, Masakazu, 1936-Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997Stibitz, George R. (George Robert), 1904-1995Townes, Charles H.Uenohara, Michiyuki, 1925-2007Weinberg, Steven, 1933-Wilkinson, David T.Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-Penzias, Arno A.Wilkinson, David T. Oral history interview with David Todd Wilkinson, 1984 September 27.Wilkinson, David T.Harwit, Martin, 1931-Oral history interview with David Todd Wilkinson, 1984 September 27.Transcript, 75 pp.Family background and early education; undergraduate studies in engineering at University of Michigan, faculty who influenced him; doctoral thesis at University of Michigan with Richard Crane on the g-2 experiment. Postdoctoral instructor; decision to work with Robert Dicke on gravitation at Princeton; funding in the Princeton Department, faculty, the ongoing NSF grant for Gravity, Relativity and Cosmology research. The lunar ranging experiment; assembling the team, background observations with balloons and COBE, construction for the 1969 Apollo flight. Studies in black-body radiation generated by Dicke, 1964; Wilkinson joins project with Peter Roll and James Peebles; building microwave apparatus, need for helium load, mapping the horn and measuring insertion loss. Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias at Bell Laboratories publish background radiation papers ahead of Dicke's team, other researchers on the topic: Ralph Alpher, Robert Herman, James Follin, George Gamow, Joseph Weber. The American Physical Society (APS) meeting in 1966, measurements from Dicke's group confirms Penzias/Wilson support of big bang theory. Further discussion on lunar ranging, measuring gravitation, the Nordvedt effect, optical measurements with Roger Dube and Bill Wickes, Steve Boughn and Peter Saulson on infrared background measurements. Paper with Mark Davis (1974). Formation of young galaxies, ongoing DIRBE (Diffuse Infrared Background Explorer) on COBE (Cosmic Background Exteriment) designed to measure background radiation over wide spectral range. CO measurements at high galactic latitude looking for dust clouds. CCD photometry by Ed Loh, find scale anistropy on NRAO maser with Juan Uson, large scale anistropy measurements. Discovery of dipole anistropy by Paul Henry and later confirmations, disconfirmation of quadropole effect. Plans for future work: g-2 experiments, measuring g and creating new infrared detector, search for low mass stars. Effects of being a physicist on his family life, hobbies, upcoming second marriage. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr LibraryArno A. Penzias Papers, 1931-2006, (bulk 1963-1998)Penzias, Arno A. Arno A. Penzias Papers 1931-2006 (bulk 1963-1998)9,500 items; 27 containers plus 2 oversize, 1 artifact and electronic files; 10.8 linear feetScientist, corporate executive, and author. Correspondence, drafts of books, articles, and speeches, interviews, scientific articles, photographs, topical files, printed matter, electronic files, and miscellaneous material.EnglishGermanChineseFrenchSwedishJapaneseSpanish; CastilianItalianRussianLibrary of Congress. Manuscript DivisionHerbert Friedman Papers, 1940-2000Friedman, Herbert, 1916-2000Herbert Friedman Papers 1940-200031.0 Linear feetAmerican Philosophical SocietyAlpher, Ralph. Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12.Alpher, Ralph.Harwit, Martin, 1931-Herman, Robert, 1914-Oral history interview with Ralph Alpher and a joint interview with Robert Herman, 1983 August 11 and 12.Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes, 2 sessions.Transcript: 138 p.Ralph Asher Alpher (1921- ). Session two is a joint interview with Robert Herman. Family background and early education, work at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, studies at George Washington University, wartime employment and studies, work with Navy on detection of mines; graduate studies with George Gamow while working at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, early universe theory, first encounter and later work with Robert Herman, interaction with physics community. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and L. R. Henrich, neglect of Alpher and Herman work by astronomical community; General Electric projects: supersonic flow, re-entry physics, the Talaria project; the Penzias/Wilson observations; honors, marriage. Miscellaneous recollections about youth in Washington, D.C., service on scientific committees, public education efforts, work at General Electric. Meeting of Alpher and Herman, their collaboration, cosmological theory, work with George Gamow, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe, Edward Condon, cosmic background radiation, controversy with steady-state adherents and others; systematic neglect of their work, nucleosynthesis in stars, reactions to awards, discussions with Arno A. Penzias at the time of Nobel Prize award (with Robert W. Wilson), correspondence with S. Pasternack about P. James Peeble's cosmology papers, Alpher paper on neutrino and photon background calculation, James Follin, C. Hayashi, Steven Weinberg's presentation in his book The First Three Minutes; current cosmological efforts, A. Zee's papers on cosmology, views on the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, Fred Hoyle's recent writings. Also prominently mentioned are: Niels Henrik David Bohr, Albert Einstein, Richard Phillips Feynman, Lawrence Randolph Hafstad, Robert Hofstadter, Huntington, and H. P. Robertson. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr LibraryFerris, Timothy. Interviews conducted for book, THE RED LIMIT, 1974-1976.Ferris, Timothy.Arp, Halton C.Burbidge, Geoffrey R.DeVorkin, David H., 1944-Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-2002.Leighton, Robert B.Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007.Mutch, Thomas A., 1931-Penzias, Arno A.Sandage, Allan.Soffen, Gerald A.Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008.Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-Interviews conducted for book, THE RED LIMIT, 1974-1976.0.5 linear feet.25 sound cassettes : analog; 1/8 in.Consists of interviews with twenty-one physicists and astronomers concerning their work. Topics include astrophysics, cosmology, relativity, and in particular the origin, nature and fate of the universe. These interviews were conducted by Ferris for his book, THE RED LIMIT: THE SEARCH FOR THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE (1977). They are not transcribed. The longest interviews are with Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Arno A. Penzias, Maarten Schmidt, and Robert W. Wilson. Other interview subjects are: Halton C. Arp, Geoffrey Burbidge, M. Carr, J. Goodette, R. Hargrave, Hal Klein, Gentry Lee, F. Low, J. Martin, T. Mutch, T. Owen, Leighton, David DeVorkin, Allan Sandage, G. Soffen, John Wheeler, and T. Young. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library