George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20 1945) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist awarded 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 cement the big-bang theory of the universe using the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite. Wikipedia
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Professor George Smoot's group conducts research on the early Universe (cosmology) using the cosmic microwave background radiation ( CMB ) and other astrophysical sources. aether.lbl.gov/
