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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978

"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"
"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Arno Allan Penzias Robert Woodrow Wilson
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Arno Allan Penzias Robert Woodrow Wilson
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
USSR USA USA
Academy of Sciences
Moscow, USSR		 Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, NJ, USA		 Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, NJ, USA
b. 1894
d. 1984		 b. 1933
(in Munich, Germany)		 b. 1936
 
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