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Nobel laureate George Smoot, who researched universe’s origins at UC Berkeley, dies at 80
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Dr. George Smoot, professor of Physics at the University of California Berkeley, gestures during a media conference Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, in Berkeley.
Read more about Smoot on Berkeley NewsSmoot died on Sept. 18 in Paris of a heart attack, according to a statement Monday by UC Berkeley.
He soon joined the Berkeley Lab, “where he spent a distinguished career uncovering the secrets of the universe,” lab director Mike Witherell wrote in a tribute.
He used $500,000 of his Nobel money to launch the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at UC Berkeley.
He traveled the world after retiring from the Berkeley Lab in 2014, and took a keen interest in climate change.