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- Smoot - Wikipedia
Oliver R Smoot was selected by his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledgemaster because he was deemed shortest—which made measuring the bridge the most labor-intensive—and he was the "most scientifically named "
- Smoot: The Most Hilarious Mathematical Unit
Avoiding that debate, there’s one unit that I think we can all agree is the best mathematical unit in all of history: the smoot A smoot is a nonstandard unit of length that originated at MIT
- What does SMOOT mean? - Definitions. net
The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank It is named after Oliver R Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge, and was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the bridge
- George F. Smoot – Facts - NobelPrize. org
George Smoot led a project that in 1992 was able to point out small variations in radiation in different directions This provides a clue to how stars and other heavenly bodies have come into existence
- Whats A Smoot? : Krulwich Wonders. . . : NPR
And so the "smoot" was born A smoot is the length of one 18 year old Oliver R Smoot — which translates to five feet seven inches, exactly
- Bio - George F. Smoot
Prof George F Smoot received the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with Prof John Mather, for the discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation
- Smoot Explained
What is the Smoot? The smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R
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