{"title":"Arno Penzias—Nobel laureate—Co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation and researcher of the chemistry of the sky","authors":"Istvan Hargittai","doi":"10.1007/s11224-024-02289-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in their Nobel-Prize-winning discovery detected the temperature in the outer space to be 3 kelvins. This provided decisive support for the Big Bang model of the birth of the Universe. Penzias was a refugee from Nazi Germany and his new homeland, the United States, provided an excellent education for him. His fruitful career at Bell Labs and in advising small companies combined with a keen interest in societal matters and contemporary politics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":780,"journal":{"name":"Structural Chemistry","volume":"35 2","pages":"701 - 706"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Structural Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11224-024-02289-2","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in their Nobel-Prize-winning discovery detected the temperature in the outer space to be 3 kelvins. This provided decisive support for the Big Bang model of the birth of the Universe. Penzias was a refugee from Nazi Germany and his new homeland, the United States, provided an excellent education for him. His fruitful career at Bell Labs and in advising small companies combined with a keen interest in societal matters and contemporary politics.
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Structural Chemistry is an international forum for the publication of peer-reviewed original research papers that cover the condensed and gaseous states of matter and involve numerous techniques for the determination of structure and energetics, their results, and the conclusions derived from these studies. The journal overcomes the unnatural separation in the current literature among the areas of structure determination, energetics, and applications, as well as builds a bridge to other chemical disciplines. Ist comprehensive coverage encompasses broad discussion of results, observation of relationships among various properties, and the description and application of structure and energy information in all domains of chemistry.
We welcome the broadest range of accounts of research in structural chemistry involving the discussion of methodologies and structures,experimental, theoretical, and computational, and their combinations. We encourage discussions of structural information collected for their chemicaland biological significance.