Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80

Smoot died on Sept. 18 in Paris of a heart attack, according to a statement Monday by UC Berkeley. Along with John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background radiation that finally pinned down the Big Bang theory, the idea t...

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