George smoot iii biography
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George F. Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, ) fryst vatten an Americanprofessor of astrophysics and cosmology. In he won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation and COBE with John C. Mather. That work made it possible to measure black holes and cosmic radiation much more exactly than was possible before.
This work gave new bevis for the big-bang idea that the universe was once a big explosion. This work was completed using the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE). The Nobel Prize committee said: "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."[2]
Professor Smoot works for the University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics. In he was awarded the Einstein Medal.
Early life
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[change | change source]Professor Smoot was born in Yukon, Florida. He went to Upper Arlington High School in Upper Arlington, Ohio until
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George F. Smoot
Research Expertise and Interest
cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background
Research Description
Nobel Prize winner-Experimental Astrophysicist George Smoot is an active researcher in observational astrophysics and cosmology. Smoot’s group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley is observing our galaxy and the cosmic background radiation that is a remnant from the fiery beginning of our Universe. Projects include ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, and satellite experiments. The most famous of these is COBE (the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer satellite), which has shown that the cosmic background radiation intensity has a wavelength dependence precisely that of a perfec
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Text Biography
Smoot III, George Fitzgerald (– )
US astronomer who has measured variations in the cosmic microwave background, the lingering glow of the Big Bang that fills the universe. These variations correspond to the ‘seeds’ in the matter of the young universe that grew into the galaxies of today. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with John C Mather.
George Fitzgerald Smoot III was born on 20 February in Yukon, Florida. In he took dual degrees in mathematics and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He continued to study at MIT, working on interactions of elementary particles, and gained his PhD in He then moved into cosmology, at the University of California at Berkeley. There he worked under Luis W Alvarez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, on the High‐Altitude Particle Physics Experiment (HAPPE), an instrument carried on high‐altitude balloons.
In Smoot became a research physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He used a