[neverdem]

U.S. duo win physics Nobel for backing up Big Bang

[neverdem]

BIG BANG!

[ChiMark]

Home grown Nobel winners?

[Steely Tom]

The astronomers, John C. Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and George F. Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, will split the prize of 10 million Swedish kroners, about $1.37 million.

The same Smoot who is already famous for giving his name to the certain unit of distance measure, utilized exclusively and with great precision for gauging the length of the Harvard Bridge ?

[dangus]

Quick trivia: How big is a "smoot"?