RIP George F. Smoot III (1945-2025)

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smoot
https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/george-smoot-iii

https://apc.u-paris.fr/fr/memory-george-fitzgerald-smoot-iii

The APC Laboratory mourns the loss of George Smoot, who passed away at his home in Paris. George Smoot was one of the pioneers of observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos and placed cosmology on a firm experimental footing.

https://elements.lbl.gov/news/honoring-the-legacy-of-george-smoot/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/smoot/facts/

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 was awarded jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/nobel.cfm

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https://inspirehep.net/authors/988263

Structure in the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer First-Year Maps (Astrophysical Journal Letters v.396, p.L1, Sept 1992) - doi 10.1086/186504
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992ApJ...396L...1S/abstract
https://inspirehep.net/literature/333970

Cosmic Background Radiation Mini-Review - Douglas Scott, George Smoot
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406567

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(2014) The Universe and Computers with George Smoot


(2012) An interview with Nobel laureate George Smoot - Physics World

https://physicsworld.com/a/cosmic-microwave-background-pioneer-george-smoot-dies-aged-80/

Prof. George Smoot Youtube Channel Intro

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https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=49881
https://astrogen.aas.org/front/searchdetails.php?agnumber=34073
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=170379

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George Smoot on Television

• George Smoot em The Big Bang Theory
• Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader - 2nd Million Dollar Winner
• (2016) TurboTax / Smoot

 

[Hornbein]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot