Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the 2006 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for finding the background radiation that finally nailed down the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.

John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. This work helped cement ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the ...

George Smoot, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped take an image of the universe in its infancy, providing strong support for the Big Bang theory and new insight into the origins of the cosmos, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nobel laureate George Smoot, whose cosmic radiation research at UC Berkeley helped prove the Big Bang theory, died ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the ...