Remembering George Smoot

arXiv:2607.13063 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-08 · Read on arXiv

John Berliner, Tom Broadhurst, Martin Bucher, Robert Cahn, Jorge Cervantes-Cota, Steven Chu, Nóra Csiszár, Razieh Emami, Leo Fung, Ken Ganga, Alison Goldwyn, Bill Green, Paula Keeney, Dhiraj Kumar Hazra, Albert Wai Kit Lau, Sean, Li, Eric Linder, Charley Lineweaver, Tao Liu, Omar López-Cruz, Philip Lubin, Kam-Biu Luk, John Mather, Saul Perlmutter, Federico Piazza, Graciela Tiburcio Pintos, Barbara Rittner, Uroš Seljak, Mehdi Shafiee, Tony Spadafora, Henry Tye, Ann Whetstone, Alex Zhavoronkov

Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del Pais Vasco & Donostia International Physics Center · Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/Universidad del Pais Vasco & Donostia International Physics Center · Université Paris Cité/CNRS · LBNL, University of California · Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, México · Stanford University · Harvard University & Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences Tehran, Iran · Harvard University & Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences Tehran, Iran · Durham University, UK · Université Paris Cité/CNRS · Florida State University · Florida State University · Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India · Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India · Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto · Siyang · University of California, Berkeley · LBNL, University of California, Berkeley · Australian National University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Puebla, Mexico · University of California, Santa Barbara · University of California, Berkeley & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Goddard Space Flight Center & University of Maryland · LBNL & University of California, Berkeley · Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, Marseille, France · Organización para la Sustentabilidad y la Conservación del Medio Ambiente, San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, México · SUNY Buffalo · University of California, Berkeley · Energetic Cosmos Laboratory, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan · LBNL, University of California, Berkeley · Cornell University & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong, China and Boston · Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong, China and Boston

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Submitted: 2026-07-08

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Terminology

• Cosmic Microwave Background — 25× in this paper
• Anisotropy — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics — 9× in this paper
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — 8× in this paper
• Differential Microwave Radiometer — 6× in this paper
• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory — 6× in this paper
• Commentary — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosmology on the Beach — 3× in this paper
• Department of Energy — 3× in this paper
• Paris Center for Cosmological Physics — 3× in this paper
• Energetic Cosmos Laboratory — 2× in this paper
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — 2× in this paper
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 2× in this paper
• Ultra-Fast Astronomy — 2× in this paper
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Advanced Cosmic Microwave Explorer — 1× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Center for Particle Astrophysics — 1× in this paper
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational Biology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosmology Data Analysis Center — 1× in this paper
• Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument — 1× in this paper
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fractional Quantum Hall Effect — 1× in this paper
• Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• High Altitude Particle Physics Experiment — 1× in this paper
• Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study — 1× in this paper
• Infrared Spatial Interferometer — 1× in this paper
• World Laureates Association — 1× in this paper

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