Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978
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One half went to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitza for inventions and discoveries in low-temperature physics. Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson received one quarter each for discovering the cosmic microwave background.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: Kapitza one-half for low-temperature work; Penzias and Wilson one-quarter each for cosmic microwave background discovery.
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