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1933–2024 Germany
Arno Allan Penzias (26 April 1933 – 22 January 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
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The Bible talks of purposeful creation. What we have, however, is an amazing amount of order; and when we see order, in our experience it normally reflects purpose.
The Voice of Genius : Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries (1995)
I began to realize that there were bad things that my parents couldn’t completely control, something to do with being Jewish. I learned that everything would be fine if we could only get to “America”.
Autobiographical notes (2005)
Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.
The Voice of Genius : Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries (1995)
Astronomy leads us to an unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly-improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.
The Designed 'Just-so' Universe (1999)
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