Waymond Jackson, age 91, was called home on . Home-Going Celebration 12PM Wednesday, in the Chapel of SMOOT FUNERAL SERVICE, 4019 E Livingston Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Family ...

Darrell Smoot, Sr., age 78, was called home on . Visitation 10AM and Life Celebration 11AM Tuesday, in the Chapel of SMOOT FUNERAL ...

Oliver R. Smoot was selected by his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledgemaster because he was deemed shortest—which made measuring the bridge the most labor-intensive—and he was the "most scientifically named."

Smoot, a physicist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting minute temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background, a prediction of the Big Bang theory.

The library was built in 1969 by Ann Hopewell Smoot in memory of her husband, Lewis Egerton Smoot, and opened in 1970. In 1973, the King George County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance to create the board of trustees.

Dr. Smoot was a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, when he led a team that constructed a...

George F. Smoot, Who Showed How the Cosmos Began, Is Dead at 80

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 that the universe was born in a rapid cosmic expansion some 14 billion years ago.