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George Smoot
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George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III
(born February 20, 1945) is an
American
astrophysicist
,
cosmologist
, Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the 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
," making Smoot the only Nobel laureate born in
Florida
.
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