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1945–2025 United States

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (February 20, 1945 – September 2025) was an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C.

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But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Smoot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.