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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
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John C. Mather
George F. Smoot
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
USA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
b. 1946
b. 1945
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