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George's photo on this page http://aether.lbl.gov/www/personnel/Smoot-bio.html is published on the server of a US government institution. Does that make it public domain? My guess is yes, but i'd rather hear more opinions. The photo is here. Boud 12:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Note that he is not the MIT alumnus that is the Smoot used to measure the Harvard Bridge. Don't let that possible misperception into the article. [1] GRBerry 12:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know which Smoot was used to measure the Harvard Bridge? I wondered the same thing.
Just a precautionary 'don't delete this section'. It's exactly what I was trying to find out by coming to this page.
Another editor changed the year of his PhD from 1970 to 1971, citing http://alum.mit.edu/. As an MIT alum, I can go there and validate that. But non-MIT alums can't. As we preference verifiability over truth, I've restored it to 1971, citing a MIT Press release from early this morning, which matches the biography at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As we preference verifiability over truth, I think that the 1970 date should stay until we find verifiable sources that anyone can use. But I expect the MIT alum site to be more accurate. GRBerry 21:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I translated most of the Biography section from the French article, so please copyedit in case I made any mistakes. - SpLoT 03:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
C'mon folk, there's gotta be a better picture of this guy. At the very least crop out the booze. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 01:40, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Let's put this in stronger terms, since I will already be calling down the wrath of one of Aspergpeida's editors. What the eff is wrong with strong drink, you douche? —Preceding
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Why in the world would it be an issue that he's pouring Champagne? That's what I'd be doing if I'd just won a Nobel prize.--
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16:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Is any information about him religious beliefs to put in infobox?-- Vojvodae ist 09:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, he did refer to the seeds for future galaxy superclusters as "fingerprints from the Maker" and also said the creation of the universe was "finely orchestrated". He was recently asked if he was religious and he responded by saying: "I try not to answer that question and the reason is there are a lot of people so desperate to believe but they don't want to figure it out for themselves and they want an authority to tell them the correct answer. I think that is not right. It's a personal relationship people should have with God." Hard to say if he's religious or not, but he certainly seems like some sort of theist. 208.96.110.56 ( talk) 18:01, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Smoot said in an interview that he was raised a Protestant and "is very comfortable with that." Also, his interview on closertotruth.com is pretty telling. Certainly seems like not only a theist, but a spiritual person as well. 99.240.233.185 ( talk) 05:52, 23 December 2010 (UTC)devo
George Smoot participated in the the Fox game show "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader" on September 18, 2009 and was the first man to successfully win $1,000,000 on this show by guessing the correct location of of Acacia National Park.
I'm sure glad that this is the one of the only people in the world smarter than a 5th Grader... Otherwise the LHC would be run by elementary school kids haha. 72.220.125.54 ( talk) 03:14, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
The article doesn't say what he won the Nobel prize for.-- 75.83.69.196 ( talk) 16:20, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Done — "He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." —
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Dr. Smoot's photo [1] is subtitled "George Smoot at Ithaka Science Center's POVO conference 'Talent development in Science and Technology’ in Venlo, the netherlands." It would be useful to (a) spell out the POVO acronym and (b) add links to the conference during which the photo was taken. The Ithaka Science Center archive page [2] suggests it was a conference in 2009 and that Smoot is interested in the subject (he was to be the key note speaker). The page says "It is our pleasure to announce the POVO-Science & Technology conference: 'Scientific Talent Development', on June 18, 2009. We are honored and pleased to have Prof Dr. George Smoot, Nobel Laureate -Physics in 2006, as the conference key note speaker." (The page has a no-cache tag, so can't be webcite'd.) I don't speak or read Dutch, but using Google translate I think POVO is an acronym for "primair onderwijs ... voortgezet onderwijs". I haven't found a page that identifies the acronym and the Dutch phrase explicitly, and explains what the Dutch mean by POVO and how broad the activity is, but it seems to be essentially an effort to improve students' transitions from primary to secondary school. For instance, see POVO-013 [3] that says "POVO-013 is a collaboration between primary education (PO) and secondary education (VO) in the Tilburg region." Could someone who knows Dutch and/or knows the POVO subject matter, add material about POVO and Smoot's activity and/or interest in it? Thanks. Updated. Inkwzitv ( talk) 06:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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George's photo on this page http://aether.lbl.gov/www/personnel/Smoot-bio.html is published on the server of a US government institution. Does that make it public domain? My guess is yes, but i'd rather hear more opinions. The photo is here. Boud 12:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Note that he is not the MIT alumnus that is the Smoot used to measure the Harvard Bridge. Don't let that possible misperception into the article. [1] GRBerry 12:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone know which Smoot was used to measure the Harvard Bridge? I wondered the same thing.
Just a precautionary 'don't delete this section'. It's exactly what I was trying to find out by coming to this page.
Another editor changed the year of his PhD from 1970 to 1971, citing http://alum.mit.edu/. As an MIT alum, I can go there and validate that. But non-MIT alums can't. As we preference verifiability over truth, I've restored it to 1971, citing a MIT Press release from early this morning, which matches the biography at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As we preference verifiability over truth, I think that the 1970 date should stay until we find verifiable sources that anyone can use. But I expect the MIT alum site to be more accurate. GRBerry 21:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I translated most of the Biography section from the French article, so please copyedit in case I made any mistakes. - SpLoT 03:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
C'mon folk, there's gotta be a better picture of this guy. At the very least crop out the booze. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 01:40, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Let's put this in stronger terms, since I will already be calling down the wrath of one of Aspergpeida's editors. What the eff is wrong with strong drink, you douche? —Preceding
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69.171.176.101 (
talk) 03:37, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Why in the world would it be an issue that he's pouring Champagne? That's what I'd be doing if I'd just won a Nobel prize.--
75.83.69.196 (
talk)
16:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Is any information about him religious beliefs to put in infobox?-- Vojvodae ist 09:47, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, he did refer to the seeds for future galaxy superclusters as "fingerprints from the Maker" and also said the creation of the universe was "finely orchestrated". He was recently asked if he was religious and he responded by saying: "I try not to answer that question and the reason is there are a lot of people so desperate to believe but they don't want to figure it out for themselves and they want an authority to tell them the correct answer. I think that is not right. It's a personal relationship people should have with God." Hard to say if he's religious or not, but he certainly seems like some sort of theist. 208.96.110.56 ( talk) 18:01, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Smoot said in an interview that he was raised a Protestant and "is very comfortable with that." Also, his interview on closertotruth.com is pretty telling. Certainly seems like not only a theist, but a spiritual person as well. 99.240.233.185 ( talk) 05:52, 23 December 2010 (UTC)devo
George Smoot participated in the the Fox game show "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader" on September 18, 2009 and was the first man to successfully win $1,000,000 on this show by guessing the correct location of of Acacia National Park.
I'm sure glad that this is the one of the only people in the world smarter than a 5th Grader... Otherwise the LHC would be run by elementary school kids haha. 72.220.125.54 ( talk) 03:14, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
The article doesn't say what he won the Nobel prize for.-- 75.83.69.196 ( talk) 16:20, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Done — "He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the "discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." —
Charles Edwin Shipp (
talk)
04:21, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
Dr. Smoot's photo [1] is subtitled "George Smoot at Ithaka Science Center's POVO conference 'Talent development in Science and Technology’ in Venlo, the netherlands." It would be useful to (a) spell out the POVO acronym and (b) add links to the conference during which the photo was taken. The Ithaka Science Center archive page [2] suggests it was a conference in 2009 and that Smoot is interested in the subject (he was to be the key note speaker). The page says "It is our pleasure to announce the POVO-Science & Technology conference: 'Scientific Talent Development', on June 18, 2009. We are honored and pleased to have Prof Dr. George Smoot, Nobel Laureate -Physics in 2006, as the conference key note speaker." (The page has a no-cache tag, so can't be webcite'd.) I don't speak or read Dutch, but using Google translate I think POVO is an acronym for "primair onderwijs ... voortgezet onderwijs". I haven't found a page that identifies the acronym and the Dutch phrase explicitly, and explains what the Dutch mean by POVO and how broad the activity is, but it seems to be essentially an effort to improve students' transitions from primary to secondary school. For instance, see POVO-013 [3] that says "POVO-013 is a collaboration between primary education (PO) and secondary education (VO) in the Tilburg region." Could someone who knows Dutch and/or knows the POVO subject matter, add material about POVO and Smoot's activity and/or interest in it? Thanks. Updated. Inkwzitv ( talk) 06:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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