About George F. Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
Prof. Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize money to a charitable foundation. He had cameo roles in the famous TV series, The Big Bang Theory (2009 and 2019) and he won the jackpot of the popular US TV show, Are you smarter than a 5th grader? (2009).
- Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley
- Director of the Centre for Fundamental Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (IAS HKUST)
- President of the Centre for Cosmological Physics at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory of the University of Paris, France.
- Energetic Cosmos Laboratory, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
- Since 2020. he has been a Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) associate.
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