George F. Smoot, who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, has donated most of his winnings to the University of California at Berkeley, to help create a new center devoted to research on cosmology. He is giving $500,000 of his $700,000 share of the prize to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, according to a news release issued by the university. Another Berkeley physicist, Saul Perlmutter, is donating a portion of his 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize to the same center. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is providing $1.5-million, and the university has received $5.5-million in other gifts for the center. —Richard Monastersky
December 4, 2007
Nobel Prize Winner Donates Share of Award to Pay for Research
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