(3 Oct 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Various of Stockholm skyline
2. Tilt up of exterior of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
3. Close up of sign reading "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
4. Mid shot of Nobel committee
5. Audience listening
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gunnar Oquist, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2006 jointly to John Mather and George Smoot, they get the prize for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Both of the laureates are from the US."
7. Photographs of the winners being shown on the screen
8. Various names of winners on a written press release
9. Wide of audience
10. Various of screen shots showing presentation of winners study on the universe
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gunnar Oquist, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:
(speaking on phone with winner John C Mather)
"I think everybody in the room would like to join me in congratulating you on your achievement and congratulating you and Doctor Smoot."
12. Photograph of John C Mather, AUDIO (English) John C Mather, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2006:
"When I heard about the prize I was certainly thrilled and amazed, I can't say I was completely surprised because people have been telling us that we should be recognised but this is such a special and rare honour for people that I am still amazed."
13. Wide of journalists
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lars Bergstrom, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics:
"And of course this has completely changed cosmology. All these things that we speak about now like dark matter, dark energy, various parameters, limits on neutrino masses from cosmology all of these measurements were a starting point for all of this, it has opened the door to a while new field of cosmology."
15. Pan right of hall
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
16. Two stills of George F Smoot
NASA
17. Still of John C Mather
NASA
FILE, April 1992
18. Various of ripples at the edge of the cosmos detected by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) that are the fossilised imprints of the birth of the stars and galaxies
STORYLINE:
Americans John C Mather and George F Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped shed more light on the beginning of the universe and the origin of galaxies and stars.
The scientists were awarded the prize for discovering the nature of "blackbody radiation," cosmic background radiation believed to stem from the so-called Big Bang when the universe was created, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said.
Their work was based on measurements done with the help of the NASA-launched Cosmic Background Explorer satellite in 1989.
They were able to observe the universe in its early stages about 380,000 years after it was born.
Ripples in the light they detected also helped demonstrate how galaxies came together over time.
By confirming the predictions of the Big-Bang theory, which states that the universe was borne of a dense and incredibly hot state billions of years ago, with direct quantitative evidence, the scientists transformed the study of the early universe from a largely theoretical pursuit into a new era of direct observation and measurement.
"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.
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