George Smoot, a pioneering astrophysicist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, has passed away at the age of 80. Smoot joined UC Berkeley in 1971 and Berkeley Lab in 1974, where he spent a distinguished career uncovering the secrets of the universe.
Learn more about George Smoot:
George F . Smoot, Who Showed How the Cosmos Began, Is Dead at 80
October 20, 2025 / Katrina Miller / New York Times
Former UC Berkeley professor, Nobel laureate George Smoot dies at 80
October 6, 2025 / Yashal Sarfaraz / Daily Cal
Nobelist George Smoot, whose satellite experiments validated the Big Bang theory, dies at 80 – 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.
September 29, 2025 / Robert Sanders / UC Berkeley News
Honoring the Legacy of George Smoot
September 26, 2025 / Mike Witherell / Berkeley Lab Elements
In Memory of George F. Smoot III (1945-2025)
September 2025 / Berkeley Lab QuarkNet Workshop
In Memory — George Fitzgerald Smoot, III
September 2025 / Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie
Nobelist George Smoot launches new cosmology center
December 4, 2007 / UC Berkeley News
George F. Smoot III Wins 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 2006 / Berkeley Lab’s 2006 Nobel Prize announcement
George F. Smoot’s Nobel Biography
October 2026 / Nobel Foundation website
