Arno Penzias's discovery of cosmic microwave background in 1965 revolutionized cosmology by confirming the hot big bang origin of the universe, leading to the decline of Hoyle's steady state theory.
Penzias, along with Wilson and Jefferts, further advanced astrophysics by detecting interstellar carbon monoxide, thereby establishing molecular line astronomy as a field.
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