Dr. George F. Smoot III is a Director and Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley's Center for Cosmological Physics, the Universite of Paris Center for Cosmology (PCCP), and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Center for Fundamental Physics. He is active at the Donostia International Physics Center, a unique center at the cutting edge of scientific research DIPC, Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. in 1970 and was a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. before moving to UC Berkeley in 1971. His honors include the NASA Medal for Exceptional Science Achievement, the Kilby Award, the Lawrence Award, and the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006. Experimental astrophysicist George Smoot is an active researcher in observational astrophysics and cosmology. Smoot’s group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley is famous for observing our galaxy and the cosmic background radiation that is a remnant of the fiery beginning of our universe. His projects include ground-based radio telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, and satellite experiments.