George F. Smoot
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2006for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiationTogether with: John C. Mather
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/20/1945
- place of birth
- Yukon
- date of death
- 9/18/2025
- place of death
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Lived
- 80 years
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- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- American Physical Society
- educated at
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- Upper Arlington High School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- field of work
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- astrophysics
- physics
- cosmology
- occupation
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- physicist
- astrophysicist
- university teacher
- cosmologist
- astronomer
- employer
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- University of California, Berkeley
- doctoral student
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- Charles Lineweaver