Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe’s origins

[Hume]

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.

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.

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

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He was 80.

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[Cypress]

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

That's not right. The comic microwave background radiation was discovered in the early 1960s by Arno Penzias and that other guy at Bell labs.

George Smoot must have discovered some other property of the CMB.

 

[Hume]

That's not right. The comic microwave background radiation was discovered in the early 1960s by Arno Penzias and that other guy at Bell labs.

George Smoot must have discovered some other property of the CMB

Tell the Nobel Committee of their error.

 

[Cypress]

Tell the Nobel Committee of their error.

It's an error by the journalist writing this article, not the Nobel committee.

Arno Penzias and his colleague at Bell Labs won the Nobel in the 1960s for discovering the CMB. The events surrounding their discovery is arguably the most famous story in 20th century astronomy, because they weren't even actually looking for it. They were telephone company employees working on applied radio wave communication technology.

 

[Hume]

It's an error by the journalist writing this article, not the Nobel committee.

Arno Penzias and his colleague at Bell Labs won the Nobel in the 1960s for discovering the CMB. The events surrounding their discovery is arguably the most famous story in 20th century astronomy, because they weren't even actually looking for it. They were telephone company employees working on applied communication technology.

Fascinating.

 

[gmark77]

Acccording to the Nobel Committee's website: Smoot got it “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”

George F. Smoot – Facts - NobelPrize.org

www.nobelprize.org

 

[Cypress]

Fascinating.

Right, two telephone company employees finding the cosmic background radiation by accident, when they weren't even looking for it, is one of the most curious stories of 20th century science.

Only a barely educated MAGA moron would not appreciate that story.

 

[Phyllis Diller]

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.

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.

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

Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He was 80.

apnews.com

nothing is pinned down about the origin of the universe.

 

[Phyllis Diller]

this shit is boring and for nerds.