Nobel Laureate George Smoot and the Origin of the Universe

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QUEST TV talks with George Smoot, big bang researcher at UC Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Duration: 4:08
Original Air Date: Tuesday, Apr 24, 2007
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