Dr. Arno Penzias, physicist behind the Big Bang theory, dies at 90
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Dr. Arno Penzias, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who helped find evidence to confirm the Big Bang theory, has died at 90. Penzias fled Nazi Germany before joining his colleague Dr. Robert Wilson to settle a long scientific debate over how the universe was born. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.