GEORGE SMOOT will be relieved. From now on he’ll be known as a Nobel laureate, rather than the man responsible for saying “if you are a religious person it’s like seeing the face of God”, when describing ripples in the radiation left over from the big bang.
On Tuesday, Smoot, of the University of California, Berkeley, and John Mather of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, were awarded the physics Nobel for their work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the afterglow of the big bang. The Nobel prize committee credited Mather with being “the true driving force”…
