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6 days ago

George Smoot dies at 80; Nobel laureate researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley

George Smoot, Nobel laureate who mapped cosmic microwave background fluctuations that confirmed the Big Bang, died Sept. 18 in Paris at age 80.
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1 week ago

Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

Along with John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big Bang theory, the idea that the universe was born in a rapid cosmic expansion some 14 billion years ago. The Florida native earned a PhD in particle physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.
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