Arno Penzias Autographs
Arno Allan Penzias (/ˈpɛnziəs/; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 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.
Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, the son of Justine (née Eisenreich) and Karl Penzias, who ran a leather business. His grandparents had come to Munich from Poland and were among the leaders of the Reichenbachstrasse shul. At age six, he and his brother Gunther were among the Jewish children evacuated to Britain as part of the Kindertransport rescue operation. Some time later, his parents also fled Nazi Germany, first for the United Kingdom, and then for the United States, and the family settled in the Bronx, New York City in 1940. In 1946, Penzias became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1951 and after enrolling to study chemistry at the City College of New York, he changed majors and graduated 1954 with a degree in physics, ranked near the top of his class. Following graduation, Penzias served for two years as a radar officer in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. This led to a research assistantship in the Columbia University Radiation Laboratory, which was then heavily involved in microwave physics. Penzias worked under Charles H. Townes, who later invented the maser. Penzias enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University in 1956, where he earned a master's degree and a PhD in physics, the latter in 1962.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Arno Penzias (RARE! “Nobel Prize in Physics" Arno Penzias Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo COA) was sold in March 2025 for $199.99 while the cheapest item (Allan Arno Penzias Signed 4x6 Photo 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics Autograph Auto) found a new owner for $0.01 in September 2023. The month with the most items sold (2) was September 2013 with an average selling price of $15.99 for an autographed item of Arno Penzias. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2025 with $161.68 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.06 was October 2022. In average, an autographed item from Arno Penzias is worth $15.99.
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