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    George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and the second contestant to win the $1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?.

  2. Research Description. 2006 Nobel Prize winner-Experimental Astrophysicist George Smoot is an active researcher in observational astrophysics and cosmology. Smoots group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley is observing our galaxy and the cosmic background radiation that is a remnant from the ...

  3. George F. Smoot. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006. Born: 20 February 1945, Yukon, FL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” Prize share: 1/2. Life.

  4. Apr 29, 2024 · George F. Smoot (born Feb. 20, 1945, Yukon, Fla., U.S.) is an American physicist, who was corecipient, with John C. Mather, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for discoveries supporting the big-bang model. Smoot received a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. The following year he joined the faculty at ...

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  5. George F. Smoot, 61, leader of a research team that was able to image the infant universe, revealing a pattern of minuscule temperature variations which evolved into the universe we see today, has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics. He shares the award with John C. Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

  6. Research Interests. 2006 Nobel Prize winner-Experimental Astrophysicist George Smoot is an active researcher in observational astrophysics and cosmology. Smoots group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley is observing our galaxy and the cosmic background radiation that is a remnant from the ...

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