40 years of Cosmic Microwave Background: Discovery and Examination of CMB

par Prof. George Fitzerald Smoot (Prix Nobel de physique)

mercredi 28 nov. 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre

Professor George Smoot was co-awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. George Smoot has been at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. In April 1992, He made the announcement that the team he led had detected the long sought variations in the early Universe which had been observed by COBE NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite mapped the intensity of the radiation from the early Big Bang and found variations so small they had to be the seeds on which gravity worked to grow the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and clusters of clusters that are observed in the universe today. These variations are also relics of creation. In this seminar he will review and comment this discovery.