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Article: Berkeley Lab's Smoot wins Nobel Prize in physics.
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
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- October 3, 2006
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Byline: Betsy Mason
Oct. 3--Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory astrophysicist George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in physics this year for his work on cosmic microwave background radiation. He shares the prize with John Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Smoot, 61, has been at Berkeley Lab since 1971, and worked with Luis Alvarez, the 1968 winner of the Nobel Prize. In 1992, Smoot announced that NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, known as COBE, had observed small ripples in the fabric of the early universe -- the first solid evidence that the Big Bang theory was correct. Stephen Hawking called it "the discovery of the ...