Nobelmen: Cosmic microwave radiation and the Big Bang
The Prize: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” which was a pivotal turn in cosmology evolving into a precise science. The Science: In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson uncovered a strange […]