George F. Smoot
Smoot received his Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1970 and was a post-doctoral researcher at M.I.T. before moving to Berkeley in 1971. Honors include: NASA Medal for Exceptional Science Achievement, Kilby Award, Lawrence Award, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. An active researcher in observational astrophysics and cosmology, Smoot’s group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in the Department of Physics 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 perfectly absorbing body, indicating that it is the relic radiation from the Big Bang origin of the Universe.
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