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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"
John C. Mather George F. Smoot
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John C. Mather George F. Smoot
half 1/2 of the prize half 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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