George Fitzgerald Smoot III

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/George_Fitzgerald_Smoot_III
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gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Oersted_Medal
gptkb:Daniel_Chalonge_Medal
gptkb:Gruber_Prize_in_Cosmology
gptkbp:birthDate 1945-02-20
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Yukon,_Florida,_United_States
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gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:David_H._Frisch
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Lawrence_Berkeley_National_Laboratory
gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:field gptkb:cosmology
astrophysics
physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label George Fitzgerald Smoot III
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:COBE_satellite
cosmic microwave background radiation
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gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear 2006
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research on cosmic background radiation
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gptkb:researchers
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gptkbp:website http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/~smoot/
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