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" Two American astronomers were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics today for their work confirming the Big Bang theory as the origin of the universe. One day after another surprise Nobel win, Drs. John Mather and George Smoot took the $1.4-million prize after their 1989 development of the Cobe satellite, which measured microwave ripples in space tied to the origin and development of galaxies. Their research spawned a wave of Big Bang debates throughout the 1990s and paved the way for modern cosmology, including satellites like NASA&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;answers to the Universe&amp;quot; WMAP and the soon-to-be-launched Planck. Up next on the Nobel docket? The chemistry prize, to be announced tomorrow\u2014right before we hand out our annual PM Breakthrough Awards to America&amp;#039;s top innovators. \u2014Matt Sullivan A celestial portrait of the young universe from the Hubble Space Telescope. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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