In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at the Crawford Hill location of Bell Telephone Laboratories in nearby Holmdel Township, New Jersey had built a Dicke radiometer that they intended to use for radio astronomy and satellite communication experiments.
Alpherjev in Hermanov rezultat iz leta 1948 so obravnavali na mnogih fizikalnih srečanjih do nekako leta 1955, ko sta oba zapustila Laboratorij za uporabno fiziko Univerze Johnsa Hopkinsa.