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Nobel physicist George Smoot, who helped map cosmic microwave background radiation, died at 80 in Paris.
Nobel laureate George Smoot, a physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, died at 80 in Paris on September 18 from a heart attack.
He won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Mather for mapping cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
His work revealed the early universe’s temperature fluctuations, shaping modern cosmology.
Smoot, a native of Florida, earned his MIT PhD in 1970 and was known for making science accessible through TV appearances.
He is survived by his sister, two nieces, and partner Nóra Csiszár.
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El físico Nobel George Smoot, que ayudó a mapear la radiación de fondo cósmica de microondas, murió a los 80 años en París.