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George Smoot
Nobel Prize laureate in Physics 2006
George Smoot was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He has been involved in the Planck and Euclid missions.
George Smoot was co-awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." Smoot received dual bachelor's degrees (1966) in mathematics and physics and a PhD (1970) in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Smoot has been at the
University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970.
In April 1992, Smoot announced that the COBE DMR team he led had detected the long-sought variations in the early universe which are the seeds that - under the influence of gravity - grow to be the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and clusters of clusters that are observed in the universe today. NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite mapped the intensity of the radiation from the early Big Bang and found very small amplitude variations. These variations are also relics of creation.
Smoot has authored more than 600 science papers and is also co-author (with Keay Davidson) of the popular science book 'Wrinkles in Time' (Harper, 1994), which elucidates cosmology and the COBE discovery. Smoot's essay "My Einstein Suspenders" appears in 'My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man', His Work, and His Legacy' (Ed. John Brockman, Pantheon, 2006).
Smoot has continued his research in cosmology and he has been involved in the Planck and Euclid missions. The Planck mission is the third-generation mission to exploit the CMB fluctuations discovered by COBE DMR. Euclid is a mission to understand the dark energy causing the current expansion of the universe to accelerate.
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