2007-9-14

Press-photographer are photographing George F. Smoot at a press conference in Berkeley California on October 3, 2006 .

John C. Mather attended a press conference in Washington D. C. USA on October 3, 2006 .

On October 3, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences RSAS announced that George F. Smoot and John C. Mather from USA were awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The Nobel committee declared in their report that the discovery by George F. Smoot and John C. Mather is of great assistance in researching on early universe and can help human beings to know more about the origin of galaxy and stars. They provide more and more assistance for the big bang theory about the origin of universe in virtue of information acquired via COBE satellite by National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA .

John C. Mather, who is now at the age of 60 now and had received the doctor's degree of University of California Berkeley, CA, USA in 1974, is a superior astrophysicist of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre at present.

George F. Smoot, who was born in 1945 and had received the doctor's degree of MIT IN 1970, is a professor of University of California Berkeley, CA, USA now. They will share the cash award of 10M Swedish Kronor (about US$1,400,000).