The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
Awarded on: 2006-10-03
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
George F. Smoot
Born: 1945-02-20 in Yukon, FL, USA
Gender: male
Field: American astrophysicist and cosmologist (born 1945)
Biography
George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and the second contestant to win the $1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".