Research Areas:
Observational astrophysics and cosmology
Prof. George Smoot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, jointly with Prof. John MATHER, for their work that led to the “discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. This work helped further the Inflationary Universe and the Big Bang theory of the universe.
Prof. Smoot received his Bachelor degrees in Mathematics and Physics and his PhD in Physics in 1970 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. He is also Chair of the Endowment Fund "Physics of the Universe" of Paris Center for Cosmological Physics.
Prof. Smoot was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has been honored by several universities worldwide with doctorates or professorships. He was also the recipient of Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2006), Daniel Chalonge Medal from the International School of Astrophysics (2006), Einstein Medal from Albert Einstein Society (2003), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the US Department of Energy (1995), and the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal from NASA (1991).
Prof. Smoot is an author of more than 500 science papers and is also co-author (with Keay DAVIDSON) of the popularized scientific book Wrinkles in Time (Harper, 1994) that elucidates cosmology and the discovery of NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer. A great teacher and a keen advocate of popular science, Prof. Smoot received the Oersted Medal in 2009 for his notable contributions to the teaching of physics.
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Emami, R., Broadhurst, T., Smoot, G., Chiueh, T., & Luu, H. N. (2020). Soliton Solution for the Central Dark Mass in 47-Tuc Globular Cluster and Implications for the Axiverse. Physical Review D, 101(6). doi:10.1103/physrevd.101.063006 |
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Liu, T., Smoot, G., & Zhao, Y. (2020). Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light. Physical Review D, 101(6). doi:10.1103/physrevd.101.063012 |
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Grossan, B., Kumar, P., & Smoot, G. (2019). The emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts: Identification via optical-IR slope measurements. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 23, 14-22. doi:10.1016/j.jheap.2019.08.001 |
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Diego, J. M., Hannuksela, O. A., Kelly, P. L., Pagano, G., Broadhurst, T., Kim, K., Li, T. G. F., & Smoot, G. (2019). Observational signatures of microlensing in gravitational waves at LIGO/Virgo frequencies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 627. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935490 |
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Bhattacharya, M., Kumar, P., & Smoot, G. (2019). Mergers of black hole–neutron star binaries and rates of associated electromagnetic counterparts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(4), 5289-5309. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1147 |
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Shafiee, M., Grossan, B., Hu, J., Colantoni, I., & Smoot, G. (2019). Design optimization of a 10 kilopixel optical band Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector. Journal of Instrumentation, 14(12). doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/12/p12011 |
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De Colle, F., Lu, W., Kumar, P., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., & Smoot, G. (2018). Thermal and non-thermal emission from the cocoon of a gamma-ray burst jet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(4), 4553-4564. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1282 |
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Hazra, D. K., Paoletti, D., Finelli, F., & Smoot, G. (2018). Reionization in the dark and the light from Cosmic Microwave Background. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(09), 016-016. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2018/09/016 |
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L'Huillier, B., Shafieloo, A., Hazra, D., Smoot, G. and Starobinsky, A. (2018). Probing features in the primordial perturbation spectrum with large-scale structure data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2), pp.2503-2512. |
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Hazra, D., Paoletti, D., Ballardini, M., Finelli, F., Shafieloo, A., Smoot, G. and Starobinsky, A. (2018). Probing features in inflaton potential and reionization history with future CMB space observations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(02), pp.017-017. |
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Emami, R. and Smoot, G. (2018). Observational constraints on the primordial curvature power spectrum. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018(01), pp.007-007. doi: 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/01/007 |
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Smoot, G. and Debono, I. (2017). 21 cm Intensity Mapping with the Five Hundred Metre Aperture Spherical Telescope. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 597, p.A136. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526794 |
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Hazra, D. K., & Smoot, G. (2017). Witnessing the reionization history using Cosmic Microwave Background observation from Planck. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(11), 028-028. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/11/028 |
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Hazra, D., Shafieloo, A., Smoot, G. and Starobinsky, A. (2016). Primordial Features and Planck Polarization. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(09), pp.009-009. doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/09/009 |
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Cervantes-Cota, J., Galindo-Uribarri, S., &Smoot, G. (2016). A Brief History of Gravitational Waves. Universe, 2(3), 22. doi:10.3390/universe2030022 |
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Debono, I., & Smoot, G. (2016). General Relativity and Cosmology: Unsolved Questions and Future Directions. Universe, 2(4), 23. doi:10.3390/universe2040023 |
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