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George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel Prize winner and one of two candidates to win the US $ 1 million prize for the program Are You Smarter than 5th graders are not ?. He won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the discovery of the universe with John C. Mather was responsible for the "discovery of the black-body shape and anisotropy of microwave cosmic background radiation". This work has helped deepen the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. According to the Nobel Prize Committee, "the COBE project could also be seen as the starting point of cosmology as an exact science". Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize, less travel expenses, to a charity. Smoot has studied at the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. He is President of the Physics Foundation of the Universe at the Paris Center for Aerospace Physics.
BornGeorge Fitzgerald Smoot III, February 20, 1945, Yukon, Florida, U.S.
ResidenceFrance
NationalityAmerican
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Paris Diderot University/Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisCharge exchange of positive Kaon on platinum at three GeV/C (1971)
Known forCosmic microwave background radiation
Notable awardsNASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1992), Kilby Award (1993), American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (1994), E. O. Lawrence Award (1994), Albert Einstein Medal (2003), Nobel Prize in Physics (2006), Gruber Prize (2006), Daniel Chalonge Medal (2006), Oersted Medal (2009)

About George Smoot

Astrophysicist George Smoot was born on February 20, 1945 in Yukon, Florida, United States (He's 79 years old now).

Astrophysicist who received a the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the cosmic background explorer. His work gave further evidence towards the Bing Bang Theory.

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George Smoot before becoming famous

George Smoot was born in the Zodiac sign Pisces (The Fish), and 1945 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rooster (雞).

He studied mathematics and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Achievement of George Smoot

He was the winner of the last episode of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

George Smoot's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

His cousin Oliver R. Smoot is a chairman at the American National Standards Institute.

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He made a cameo appearance on The Big Bang Theory with TV Actor Jim Parsons.

George Smoot Income & Net worth

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Latest information about George Smoot updated on March 17 2023.