Remembering George F. Smoot III (1945–2025)
— Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD (aka Aleksandrs Zavoronkovs) (@biogerontology) September 30, 2025
With profound sadness, I share that Professor George F. Smoot III died on September 18, 2025, at the age of 80. A Nobel laureate in Physics, he changed our view of the universe and the practice of precision cosmology.
George led the… pic.twitter.com/xHDBQbFaRu
With sadness we share that George F. Smoot III—Berkeley Lab scientist since 1974 and 2006 Nobel Laureate—has passed away at 80. His team’s CMB “baby picture” transformed cosmology.https://t.co/zcyZETrrkR pic.twitter.com/lvPImABroW
— Berkeley Lab (@BerkeleyLab) September 29, 2025





