George Smoot
George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot IIIis 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"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth20 February 1945
CityYukon, FL
CountryUnited States of America
George Smoot quotes about
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.
Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.