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The Nobel Prize in

Physics 1978

Prize Amount: 725,000 SEK

Laureates

Pyotr Kapitsa

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"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"

Arno Penzias

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"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"

Robert Woodrow Wilson

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"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"