George Smoot

George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and one of two contestants to win the US$1 million prize on Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (2007). 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". Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to a charitable foundation. He is an actor, known for The Big Bang Theory (2007) and Rhythms of the Universe (2013).