Nobel Lecture: Cosmic microwave background

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1349-1379

  Smoot, George F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 35948949858     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.79.1349     Document Type: Article

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