Nobel
Prize Foundation: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics has been
awarded to
John
C. Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and
George
F. Smoot of the University of California, Berkeley "for
their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the
cosmic microwave background radiation"American duo wins 2006
Nobel physics prize
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