I feel like the nobel prize might have been a bit too much here. The fact that the effect was cosmic background radiation was of course huge, no question. But t

I feel like the nobel prize might have been a bit too much here. The fact that the effect was cosmic background radiation was of course huge, no question. But the discovery was accidental, and used an exclusive expensive equipment not available elsewhere. They didn’t design the equipment or an experimental methodology. It seems they simply observed what the antenna captured. They had all those great physicists at Bell Labs and Princeton to talk to.