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Smoot
The 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics has been won by John C Mather and George F Smoot for their work on measuring the cosmic microwave background. It's clearly a major honour, but I bet the question they're asked most today is 'are you the guy who was rolled over Harvard Bridge?'
Incidentally, Google's built-in calculator understands smoots.

October 3rd, 2006 - 19:05
I’m suprised you know about smoots. I thought it was only an MIT thing
October 3rd, 2006 - 22:49
I am a veritable font
I think I heard about it when somebody discovered Google’s calculator support. Smoots are also a unit option on Google Earth’s ruler.