In 1978, Penzias and Wilson won the Nobel Prize for their discovery. And in 2006, American astrophysicists John C. Mather and George F. Smoot would share the Nobel Prize for observing the CMB over a broad range of the spectrum, bringing cosmology from a nursery of clever but untested ideas into the realm of a precision, experimental science.

In 1978, Penzias and Wilson won the Nobel Prize for their discovery. And in
2006, American astrophysicists John C. Mather and George F. Smoot would share
the Nobel Prize for observing the CMB over a broad range of the spectrum,
bringing cosmology from a nursery of clever but untested ideas into the realm of a
precision, experimental science.