George Smoot
About
George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and the 2nd contestant to win the $1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
