
George F. Smoot
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George Fitzgerald Smoot III (February 20, 1945 – September 18, 2025) was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation". This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology a
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If you’re religious, it’s like seeing God: Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Smoot has died - Futura, le média qui explore le monde
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Nobelist George Smoot, whose satellite experiments validated the Big Bang theory, dies at 80 - University of California, Berkeley
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Berkeley Lab Astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate George Smoot Elected to National Academy of Sciences - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (.gov)
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Vice President Dick Cheney meets with the 2006 U.S. Nobel Laureates, Thursday, November 30, 2006 in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. From left to right are Dr. Andrew Fire, 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine; Dr. George F. Smoot, 2006 Nobel Prize in P - George W. Bush White House Archives (.gov)