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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.
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
Nobel laureate George Smoot, whose cosmic radiation research at UC Berkeley helped prove the Big Bang theory, died at 80. Smoot and NASA’s John Mather won the 2006 Nobel Prize for discovering...
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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.
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.
