George Smoot
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George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the US$1 million draw on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader.
In 2006, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather, which led to the "discovery of the black body shape and annotropy of cosmic microwave background radiation." Using the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, this research helped expand the Big Bang theory of the universe.
"The COBE project can also be considered as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science," Nobel Prize committee member David Ehrlich writes. Smoot donated a portion of Nobel Prize money, less travel expenses, to a charitable charity. (HKUST) Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study.
He is also a Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Fundamental Physics at HKUST.
Smoot has been employed 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 the Paris Center for Cosmological Physics.
Smoot has been honoured by several universities around the world with doctorates or professorships, in addition to being elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
He received the Nobel Laureate in Cosmology (2006), Daniel Chalonge Medal from the International School of Astrophysics (2006), Einstein Medal from the US Department of Energy (1995), and the Exceptional Science Achievement Award from NASA (1991).
Early life
Smoot was born in Yukon, Florida. Johnson Tal Crawford, his maternal grandfather, was born in Johnson, Alabama. In 1962, he graduated from Upper Arlington High School in Upper Arlington, Ohio. He studied mathematics before transferring to physics at MIT, where he earned two bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics in 1966 and a Ph.D. in particle physics in 1970. Oliver R. Smoot, the MIT student who was using the smoot unit of measure, was a "distant cousin."