George Field Smoot Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for George Field Smoot, based on 6 World History Database records associated with United States of America.

6 records1974–20063 events4 places

Chronological biography

1974

Cosmic Microwave Background1974

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Smoot begins observational work on microwave background anisotropy with airborne and balloon instruments

1986

COBE1986

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Smoot leads work on COBE instruments intended to detect tiny anisotropies in the microwave background

1989

COBE18 November 1989

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Cape Canaveral

Smoot leads the differential microwave radiometer team on the launched COBE mission

1992

COBE23 April 1992

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · American Physical Society Meeting

Smoot announces COBE detection of tiny microwave background temperature fluctuations

1995

Cosmic Microwave Background1995

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Smoot develops public and scientific interpretation of COBE anisotropies as seeds of cosmic structure

2006

Nobel Prize10 December 2006

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Stockholm

Smoot receives the Nobel Prize for COBE discovery of microwave background anisotropies

Titles and roles

Physicist

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.