The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006

 

 

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”.
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  Contents:
| Introduction – The first light in the Universe  | Clues to where matter began to accumulate | Detecting microwaves | Determining differences in temperature | Timeline | Further reading | Credits |
  Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web AB.

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