George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born Februar 20, 1945) is 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".
 George Smoot | |
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 George Smoot at POVO conference in The Netherlands | |
| Born | George Fitzgerald Smoot III 20 Februar 1945 Yukon, Florida, Unitit States |
| 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[1] |
References
eedit- ↑ 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.