Professor George F. Smoot

**University of California, Berkeley - Space Sciences Laboratory**

**Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory**

### **Education**

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics, 1970.

Thesis: \"Charge Exchange of K+ on Platinum at Three GeV.\"

B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics and Physics,
1966.

Thesis: \"Measurement of 3o.\"

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## Professional Experience

1994 Professor, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley

1971 Research Physicist, University of California, Berkeley, Space
Sciences Laboratory

1974 Joint appointment, Research Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory.

Primary research:

\(1\) Observational cosmology and particle physics utilizing the cosmic
background radiation as a probe of the early universe. These include,
work on COBE and Planck satellites, and airborne and ground-based
experiments to extend anisotropy and spectrum measurements to greater
accuracy. Also, work on the SNAP mission to utilize supernovae and
gravitational lensing as cosmological probes.

\(2\) Cosmic radiation measurement utilizing balloon-borne
superconducting magnetic spectrometers. Work on HEAO satellite cosmic
ray experiment, including design and testing on one-year lifetime liquid
helium cryostat containing a superconducting magnet. Design tests of
total absorption shower counter and calorimeter at Bevatron, NAL, and
SLAC. Work on Astronomy, a superconducting magnetic spectrometer for the
Space Station. High-energy neutrino astronomy including work on AMANDA
and IceCube projects.

1968 72 Co-Experimenter on experiment to test the S=Q rule for weak
interactions by measuring Koev decays to observe the proper time
evolution of Ke3 decays in the first few Ks lifetimes.

1974 75 Member of APS Committee on the Safety of Commercial Nuclear
Reactors.

197680 Member of Management and Operations Working Group for Shuttle
Astronomy.

197597 Member of Steering Group on Cosmic Background Explorer satellite
and Principal Investigator on isotropy experiment (NASA).

198290 Member of White Mountain Research Station Advisory Committee.

1985 96 Superconducting Magnet Facility, Space Station Study Team as
Magnet Scientist.

198800 Member of The Center for Particle Astrophysics at UC Berkeley

199098 Member of Radio Astronomy Laboratory Advisory Committee

1993. Member of Planck Mission Team.

1996-00 Member of AMANDA Collaboration and IceCube Design Team.

1996 LBNL Nuclear Science Division Search Committee

1996- The Advisory Committee for the Space Sciences Laboratory

1997 Director Search Committee Chair, Space Science Laboratory

2000. Member of SNAP Mission Team.

2007- Director, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

**Memberships, Awards and Honors**

> Sigma Xi, American Physical Society, American Astronomical Society
>
> American Association for Advancement of Science, International
> Astronomical Union
>
> NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (May 1991)
>
> Popular Science Award (Nov 1992)
>
> Aerospace Laureate, Aviation Week & Space Technology (Apr 1993)
>
> 1993 Distinguished Scientist, ARCS Foundation, Inc. (Apr 1993)
>
> Kilby Award (May 1993)
>
> Gravity Research Foundation Essay First Award (May 1993)
>
> Productivity Group Award, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (May 1993)
>
> American Achievement Golden Plate Award, (June 1994)
>
> Lawrence Award, (March 1995)

Medal: Francois Fonde Le College De France (2002-2003)

Einstein Medal, Albert Einstein Society, Switzerland (2003)

Gruber Prize with John Mather (2006)

Nobel Prize in Physics, with John Mather (2006)

Daniel Chalonge Medal, International School of Astrophysics (2006)

Member, International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation

*Docteur Honoris Causa,* De L'Université de la Méditerranée (2007)

**Books and Other Selected Publications**

1.  *Wrinkles in Time*, G.F. Smoot and K. Davidson, Little Brown, London
    (1993); Wm. Morrow, New York, (1994).

2.  \"Report to the American Physical Society by the Study Group on
    Light-Water Reactor Safety,\" H.W. Lewis, et al., *Reviews of Modern
    Physics* **47** (1975)

3.  \"Detection of Anisotropy in the Cosmic Blackbody Radiation,\" G.F.
    Smoot et al., *Phys. Rev. Lett.* **39**, 898 (1977)

4.  \"Search for Linear Polarization of the Cosmic Background
    Radiation,\" P.M. Lubin, and G.F. Smoot, *Phys. Rev. Lett.* **42**,
    129 (1979).

5.  \"Structure in the *COBE* Differential Microwave Radiometer First
    Year Maps,\" G.F. Smoot et al., *Astrophysical Journal* **396**, L1
    (1992)

6.  \"Cosmic Microwave Background Probes Models of Inflation,\" R. Davis
    et al., astro-ph/9207001, *Phys. Rev. Lett.,* **69**, 13 (1992)

7.  \"Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum by the
    COBE FIRAS Instrument,\" J.C. Mather, et al., *The Astrophysical
    Journal* **420**, 439 (1994)

8.  \"A Degree Scale Anisotropy Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave
    Background Near the Star Gamma Ursae Minoris,\" J. Gundersen, et
    al., *Astrophysical Journal,* **413**, L1 (1993)

9.  \"Statistics and Topology of the *COBE* DMR First Year Sky Maps,\"
    G.F. Smoot et al., astro-ph/9312031, *The Astrophysical Journal*,
    **437**, 1 (1994)

10. \"Gravity\'s Rainbow,\" G.F. Smoot and P.J. Steinhardt,
    astro-ph/9212003, *Journal of Quantum and Classical Gravity* **10**,
    S19 (1993)

11. \"The Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite,\" M.
    Bersanelli, N. Mandolesi, G.F. Smoot, *Mem S.A.It.*, **66**, (1995)

12. \"Constraints on the Topology of the Universe from the 2-year COBE
    Data,\" A. Costa and G.F. Smoot, astro-ph/9412003, *The
    Astrophysical Journal,* **448**, 477 (1995)

13. "The Millimeter Wave Anisotropy Experiment (MAX)," S. Tanaka, et
    al., *Astro. Lett. and Comm.,* **32**, 223 (1995)

14. "Measurements of Anisotropy in the CMB Radiation at 0.5 Scales near
    the Stars HR5127 and Phi Herculis," S.T. Tanaka et al., *The
    Astrophysical Journal* *Lett.* **468**, L81 (1996)

15. "Power Spectrum of Primordial Inhomogeneity Determined from the
    Four-Year COBE DMR Sky Maps," K.M. Gorski et al., *The Astrophysical
    Journal Lett.* **464**, L11 (1996)

16. "Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG, and COBE DMR cosmic microwave
    background observations," A.H. Jaffe, et al., astro--ph/0007333,
    *Phys. Rev. Lett.* **86**, 3475 (2001).

17. "Extracting cosmic microwave background polarization from satellite
    astrophysical maps," C. Baccigalupi, et al., astro-ph/0209591,
    submitted to *MNRAS* (2002)

18. "The large-scale polarization of the microwave background and
    > foreground," Angelica de Oliveira-Costa et al., astro-ph/0212419,
    > *The Astrophysical Journal*, submitted (2002)

19. "Determining Foreground Contamination in CMB Observations: Diffuse
    > Galactic Emission in the MAXIMA-I Field," A. H. Jaffe, et al.,
    > astro-ph/0301077, *The Astrophysical Journal*, submitted (Jan.
    > 2003)

20. "My Einstein Suspenders," in *My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-four of
    > the World\'s Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His
    > Legacy*. John Brockman, ed. Pantheon, 2006.