Created Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 12:44 PM
Nobel prize for George Smoot 
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Credit: Bonnie Azab Powell / UC Berkeley
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Credit: Bonnie Azab Powell / UC Berkeley
George Smoot emerges from his office at LBNL Tuesday morning, just hours after being awakened by a phone call from Sweden informing him that he was a winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics. With Smoot is his assistant, Melissa Barclay.