Caption: Arno Penzias (1933--) (right) and Robert Wilson (1936--) (left) with the Bell Labs radio telescope in Holmdel Township, New Jersey where in 1965 they fortuitiously discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
Penzias and Robert Wilson received 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery;
It is de rigueur in this context to mention that to be sure that they weren't just detecting instrumental noise, they had to clean history's most famous pigeon guano out of their antenna.
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