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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?.
George Smoot is an American physicist who discovered the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He led a project that used the COBE satellite to measure small variations in radiation that reveal the origin of stars and galaxies.
George Smoot is an experimental astrophysicist and cosmologist who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the cosmic background radiation. He is also the founding director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics and has published numerous papers on CMB data analysis, galactic emission mapping, and dark energy probes.
Learn about the life and achievements of George F. Smoot, the American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the cosmic microwave background. Discover how his family, education, and experiences shaped his passion for exploring the universe.
George F. Smoot 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.
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George Smoot is an astrophysicist who discovered the temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation, supporting the Big Bang theory. He led a research team that used the COBE satellite and other instruments to map the infant universe and its evolution.
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These are questions for George Smoot, awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explorations of the remnants of the first light emitted by the expanding universe. In this conversation he also talks about how science today is a truly global enterprise, and explains how he ended-up pitting his wits against 10-year-olds in the television ...
