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Craig C. Mello celebrates winning the Nobel Prize in medicine with his family Oct. 2. AP PHOTO

George F. Smoot, 61, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, and John C. Mather, 60, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, won the Nobel Prize in physics Oct. 3 for measuring the oldest light in the heavens, a feat described as "one of the greatest discoveries of the century" that convinced skeptics of the big-bang theory of the universe's origin.

The physics prize is the second this year to go to a pair of Americans. On Oct. 2 Andrew Z. Fire of Stanford University and Craig C. Mello of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester won the Nobel prize in medicine for discovering a way to block the activity of genes that has proven useful to both researchers and clinicians.

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