Sad. Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe's origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

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I knew him. A great guy. You can tell from the photos below.


https://apnews.com/article/physicist-george-smooth-big-bang-nobel-berkeley-3e4f1ac718c627806bcfd7c4653c5b54

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has died, the school said. He was 80.

Smoot died on Sept. 18 in Paris of a heart attack, according to a statement Monday by UC Berkeley.

Along with John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big Bang theory, the idea that the universe was born in a rapid cosmic expansion some 14 billion years ago.

Cheers!



Nobel Prize photo gallery

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/smoot/photo-gallery/

At LBL 2006


Physics 7B


With Swedish Princess Madeleine



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