biography
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Smoot, George Fitzgerald, III
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| male
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| lived:
| (1945– )
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| biography:
| Astrophysicist, born in Yukon, Florida, USA. He joined the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley in 1971, and led a study of cosmic background radiation that in 1992 resulted in a picture of the universe shortly after the ‘big bang’ some 12 thousand million years ago. |
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