Awards & Winners

George Smoot

Date of Birth 20-February-1945
Place of Birth Yukon
(Duval County, Florida)
Nationality United States of America, France
Also know as Dr. George Smoot, George F. Smoot
Profession Physicist, Astronomer, Professor
George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner. 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." This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to a charitable foundation. Currently Smoot is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and since 2010, a professor of physics at the Paris Diderot University, France. In 2003, he was awarded the Einstein Medal and the Oersted Medal in 2009.

Awards by George Smoot

Check all the awards nominated and won by George Smoot.

2006


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation)