George Smoot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

George Smoot

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1945

Place of Birth: Yukon, Florida, United States

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher, cosmologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About George Smoot

  • George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the US$1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?.
  • 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 (COBE) 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.Smoot is currently IAS TT & WF Chao Foundation Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study.
  • He is also Chair Professor of Physics and Director of Center for Fundamental Physics at HKUST.
  • Smoot has been at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970.
  • He is Chair of the Endowment Fund "Physics of the Universe" of Paris Center for Cosmological Physics.
  • Apart from being elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Smoot has been honored by several universities worldwide with doctorates or professorships.
  • He was also the recipient of Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2006), Daniel Chalonge Medal from the International School of Astrophysics (2006), Einstein Medal from Albert Einstein Society (2003), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the US Department of Energy (1995), and the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA (1991).

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