George Smoot, Berkeley Nobel physicist who mapped the universe’s afterglow, dies at 80

by Gabe Agcaoili, Bay City News October 2, 2025October 1, 2025

George F. Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments in space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18, 2025, in Paris. He was 80. (University of California, Berkeley via Bay City News)

GEORGE FITZGERALD SMOOT III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in Paris.

He was 80, according to a news release Tuesday from University of California, Berkeley.

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