Wilson and Penzias vs. Davis and Bahcall

Serendipity plays a role in science, but not a huge one. It's all based on luck. Some people have luck and get lucky, while some people don't. In the case of Wilson and Penzias vs. Davis and Bahcall, Wilson and Penzias got lucky, while Davis and Bahcall didn't. Serendipity might have played a part in both, but it was a bigger part in Wilson and Penzias's experiment. Nobel Prizes favor theorists, and leave out the people who either prove these people right or wrong.