George Smoot, Berkeley Nobel physicist who mapped the universe’s afterglow, dies at 80 - Local News Matters

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (1945-2025)

Nobel Laureate Scientist. He was best known for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) with John C. Mather, that led to the discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and...

George Smoot, Berkeley Nobel physicist who mapped the universe’s afterglow, dies at 80 - Local News Matters

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in Paris. He was 80, according to a news release Tuesday from University of California, Berkeley. The cause was a heart attack, according to UC Berkeley, where he was a professor emeritus of physics. Smoot rose to international prominence in 1992 when he…