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George F. Smoot

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

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born: 1945
died: 2025
age at death: 80
known for: astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist

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George Fitzgerald Smoot III was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather "for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

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