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George F. Smoot
George Smoot | |
|---|---|
 Smoot celebrating his Nobel Prize at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 3 October 2006 | |
| Born | February 20, 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Cosmic microwave background radiation |
| Awards |  Nobel Prize in Physics (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | David Frisch[1] |
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American professor of astrophysics and cosmology. In 2006 he won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation and COBE with John C. Mather. That work made it possible to measure black holes and cosmic radiation much more exactly than was possible before.
This work gave new evidence for the big-bang idea that the universe was once a big explosion. This work was completed using the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE). The Nobel Prize committee said: "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."[2]
Professor Smoot works for the University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics. In 2003 he was awarded the Einstein Medal.
- ↑ Katherine Bourzac (12 January 2007). "Nobel Causes". Technology Review. Archived from the original on 2012-01-29. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
And Smoot himself can still vividly recall playing a practical joke on his graduate thesis advisor, MIT physics professor David Frisch.
- ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006" (.PDF) (Press release). The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 3 October 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-05.
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