The announcement yesterday that UC Berkeley physicist George Smoot had received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics generated hundreds of stories in the local, national and international media. This special edition of UC Berkeley in the News brings you the best of those stories: <http://www.berkeley.edu/news/in_news/archives/20061004a.shtml>

And be sure to check out the complete package of Nobel coverage by Public Affairs at <http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/goto/smoot>.