George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather for the "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
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Background
- Born in
- Yukon
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUpper Arlington High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Albert Einstein Medal🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Oersted Medal🏆 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award🏆 honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 David H. Frisch
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Charles Lineweaver
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1945
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