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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006

External link  "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"

Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) is a relic of the earliest phase of the Universe. It is the oldest form of light, it is around us every day and, if measured, gives us remarkable insights into the shape and structure of the Universe, both at its inception and into the future. John C. Mather and George F. Smoot are leaders in understanding the origins of the Universe. They analyzed data from NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which studied the pattern of radiation from the first few moments after the universe was formed. In 1992, the team announced that they had mapped the primordial hot and cold spots in the CMB radiation. These spots are related to the gravitational field in the early universe, and are the seeds for the giant clusters of galaxies that stretch hundreds of millions of light years across the universe. John Mather coordinated the entire process and had primary responsibility for the experiment that revealed the blackbody form of the microwave background radiation measured by COBE. George Smoot had main responsibility for measuring the small variations in the temperature of the radiation.

Site evaluation and RFI spectrum measurements in Portugal at the frequency range 0.408–10 GHz for a GEM polarized galactic radio emission experiment New Astronomy, Volume 11, Issue 8, July 2006, Pages 551-556 Rui Fonseca, Domingos Barbosa, Luis Cupido, Ana Mourão, Dinis M. dos Santos, George F. Smoot and Camilo Tello
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GZK cutoff distortion due to the energy error distribution shape Astroparticle Physics, Volume 25, Issue 6, July 2006, Pages 375-379 Ivone F.M. Albuquerque and George F. Smoot
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The large-scale polarization of the microwave foreground New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 47, Issues 11-12, December 2003, Pages 1117-1121 Angélica de Oliveira-Costa, Max Tegmark, Christopher O’Dell, Brian Keating, Peter Timbie, George Efstathiou and George Smoot
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CMB anisotropy experiments Physics Reports, Volumes 333-334, August 2000, Pages 269-308 George F. Smoot
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Cosmic microwave background Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, Volume 87, Issues 1-3, June 2000, Page 474 George Smoot
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Long wavelength observations of high galactic latitude dust Planetary and Space Science, Volume 43, Issues 10-11, October-November 1995, Pages 1345-1347 George F. Smoot
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Large angular scale anisotropy of the CBR : LOBE DMR observations Planetary and Space Science, Volume 43, Issues 10-11, October-November 1995, Pages 1449-1457 George F. Smoot
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Does COBE rule out a toroidal universe? Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, Volume 43, Issues 1-3, June 1995, Pages 299-302 Angélica de Oliveira-Costa and George F. Smoot
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Astromag: Current capabilities and status Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1990, Pages 3-21 Louis M. Barbier, Eric R. Christian and Jonathan F. Ormes, George F. Smoot
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A bremsstrahlung-identification technique for cosmic-ray electrons and positrons Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Volume 122, November-December 1974, Pages 575-585 Andrew Buffington, Charles D. Orth and George F. Smoot
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MAX searches for intermediate-scale anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background Infrared Physics & Technology, Volume 35, Issues 2-3, March-April 1994, Pages 431-438 P. L. Richards, A. Clapp, M. Devlin, M. Fischer, C. Hagmann, W. Holmes, A. Lange, S. Tanaka and P. TimbieJ. Gundersen, P. Meinhold, M. Lim and P. Lubin, G. Smoot
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Preface Advances in Space Research, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1991, Page 159 P. R. Wesselius, P. D. Barthel and G. Smoot
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New multifrequency measurements of the spectrum of the cosmic background radiation Advances in Space Research, Volume 3, Issues 10-12, 1984, Pages 465-467 G. Smoot, G. De Amici, S. D. Friedman, C. Witebski, N. Mandolesi, R. B. Partridge, G. Sironi, L. Danese and G. De Zotti
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