George Smoot

George Smoot
; George Smoot
	George Smoot at POVO conference in The Netherlands
Born	George Fitzgerald Smoot III; 20 Februar 1945; Yukon, Florida, Unitit States
Dee'd	18 September 2025 (aged 80); Paris, Fraunce
Residence	Fraunce
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kent for	Cosmic microwave backgrund radiation
Awairds	NASA Medal for Exceptional Scienteefic Achievement (1992); Kilby Awaird (1993); American Academy o Achievement Gowden Plate Awaird (1994); E. O. Lawrence Awaird (1994); Albert Einstein Medal (2003); Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2006); Gruber Prize (2006); Daniel Chalonge Medal (2006); Oersted Medal (2009)
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Université Sorbone Paris Cité/Hong Kong Varsity o Science an Technology
Doctoral advisor	David H. Frisch

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born Februar 20, 1945; deed September 18, 2025)^[2] wis an American astropheesicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, an ane o twa contestants tae win the US$1 million preeze on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He wan the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 2006 fa his wirk on the Cosmic Background Explorer wi John C. Mather that led tae the "discovery o the black bouk form an anisotropy o the cosmic microwave backgrund radiation".

References

↑ Katherine Bourzac (12 Januar 2007). "Nobel Causes". Technology Review. Archived frae the original on 29 Januar 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2007. And Smoot himself can still vividly recall playing a practical joke on his graduate thesis advisor, MIT physics professor David Frisch.
↑ "In Memory -- George Fitzgerald Smoot, III". AstroParticule & Cosmologie. Retrieved 25 September 2025.