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UC Berkeley, LBNL cosmologist George F. Smoot awarded 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics

CAPTION: George F. Smoot enjoys the accolades at a press conference at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory introducing him as the co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Credit: Peg Skorpinski

 

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CAPTION: George F. Smoot, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is the co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Credit: UC Berkeley

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CAPTION: George F. Smoot, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, says his team's measurements of cosmic temperature variations "really confirmed our picture of the Big Bang."

Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/LBNL