Berkeley Takes Physics

While the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday went to a Stanfurd geneticist who just happened to be a Golden Bear in disguise, today we're privileged to have LBNL receive the award in physics:

Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot have won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe.

Mather, 60, works at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Smoot, 61, works at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.

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"The very detailed observations that the laureates have carried out from the COBE satellite have played a major role in the development of modern cosmology into a precise science," the academy said in its citation.

Modern cosmology! Us! Tomorrow the prize in chemistry is announced. 3 for 3? We're all anxiously waiting.