Nobel physicist Smoot smarter than a 5th-grader

Tanya Schevitz:

For much of his life, astrophysicist George Smoot III has been what he calls a "scientific outlaw."

It was his passion for searching and investigating outside the mainstream that won the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist the Nobel Prize for physics in 2006 for evidence supporting the Big Bang Theory. Even among his nerdy peers, the effusive Smoot was on the fringes, playing football in high school, trekking in Nepal, attending the Academy Awards, listening to music like Jay Z and Avril Lavigne on his iPod and volunteering as a sound tech for Jerry Garcia back in the day..

Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 5, 2010 1:42 AM
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