The Shocking Truth About Smoot Funeral Practices - Away State Journal
After consultation with MIT administration, and Smoot himself, the Institute formed the Smoot Measurement and Length Recalibration (SMaLR) Task Force earlier this year. The smoot was created in October 1958 after seven MIT students calibrated the Mass. Ave. bridge using 5’7 Oliver Smoot '62.
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.
Now retired and living in San Diego, Smoot took the time to talk to The Register about the prank that made him a unit of measurement and the lasting impact of standards. Looking back, he recalled how fraternity leaders assigned him the task, and he and his friends carried it out the next day.
George Smoot was an American physicist who was corecipient, with John C. Mather, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for discoveries supporting the big-bang theory.
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
Smoot has been an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) since 1974 and a University of California at Berkeley physics professor since 1994. Smoot becomes Berkeley Lab’s 11th Nobel laureate.
