BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. Nobel Prize physicist has been awarded the Daniel Chalonge Medal by the Chalonge International School of Astrophysics.
George Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was honored for his 15-year support and outstanding contributions to the Chalonge School, which offers programs in cosmology and astrophysics to worldwide graduate and postdoctoral students. The award was established in 1991 to honor the pioneering French astrophysicist Daniel Chalonge, who died in 1977.
Smoot received the award during a special Nobel ceremony held last Saturday at the Paris Observatory, during which he delivered his Nobel Lecture, "The discovery of the anisotropy of the fossil radiation of the universe," originally given the previous week in Stockholm when he received the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics, which he shared with John Mather.
The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., that conducts unclassified scientific research.
