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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?.
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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Research Description. 2006 Nobel Prize winner-Experimental Astrophysicist George Smoot is an active researcher in observational astrophysics and cosmology. Smoot’s 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 ...
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.
Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG, and COBE DMR cosmic microwave background observations. AH Jaffe, PAR Ade, A Balbi, JJ Bock, JR Bond, J Borrill, A Boscaleri, ... Physical Review Letters 86 (16), 3475. , 2001. 826. 2001. Articles 1–20. Professor Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Cited by 143,633 ...
Job title: Professor Emeritus. Bio/CV: George Smoot received his Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. in 1970 and was a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. before moving to UC Berkeley in 1971. Honors include: NASA Medal for Exceptional Science Achievement, Kilby Award, Lawrence Award, Nobel Prize in Physics 2006.
Professor George Smoot. is an astrophysicist and a cosmologist. Address: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720. From April 1994 CURRENT BIOGRAPHY (Vol 55, No 4) "We had observed the oldest and largest structures ever seen in the early universe," the cosmologist George Smoot explained on April 23, 1992 ...
