Who is George Fitzgerald Smoot III?
Q: Who is George Fitzgerald Smoot III?
A: George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American professor of astrophysics and cosmology.
Q: What did George Smoot win the Nobel Prize in Physics for?
A: George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation and COBE with John C. Mather.
Q: What did George Smoot's work on cosmic microwave background radiation and COBE make possible?
A: George Smoot's work on cosmic microwave background radiation and COBE made it possible to measure black holes and cosmic radiation much more exactly than was possible before.
Q: What new evidence did George Smoot's work give to the big-bang idea?
A: George Smoot's work gave new evidence for the big-bang idea that the universe was once a big explosion.
Q: What satellite did George Smoot use to conduct his work?
A: George Smoot used the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) to conduct his work.
Q: What did the Nobel Prize committee say about George Smoot's work on COBE?
A: The Nobel Prize committee said that "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."
Q: What other award has Professor Smoot won?
A: In 2003, Professor Smoot was awarded the Einstein Medal.
