ARNO A. PENZIAS - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 271382
Sale Price $105.00
Reg. $120.00
ARNO A. PENZIAS
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist signs this First Day Cover honoring soil
conservation
First Day Cover signed: "Arno Penzias", 6½x3½. FDC promoting soil conservation, four
4-cent stamp affixed, postmarked Rapid City, South Dakota, August 26, 1959, FIRST
DAY OF ISSUE. Born in Germany, Arno Penzias (1933-2024), of Bell Laboratories, is an
American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics who is co-discoverer of the
cosmic microwave background radiation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences in 1975. Penzias was co-recipient (with Robert W. Wilson) of a Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1978 "for their discovery of cosmic background radiation." This
radiation dates back to the origin of the Universe, left over from the Big Bang. Minor
tears on flap verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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