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Interview: The cosmic explorer

By Matthew Chalmers

30 July 2008

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In 1992 George Smoot announced the discovery of something “which, if you’re religious, is like looking at God”: spots in the radiation from the big bang that were the seeds of galaxies. This won him the . Matthew Chalmers met him at last month’s to discuss life after the big prize

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