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(4 Oct 2006) SHOTLIST AP Television Berkeley, California 1. Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner George F. Smoot walks to podium 2. Cutaway audience applauding 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) George F. Smoot, Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner: "This is really a surprise because usually you hear rumours and so forth. I was absolutely convinced and if you look we have been revamping our group website and it's only half re-done. So, there is some direct evidence that I did not expect to get the prize this year. It was not anticipated and I was particularly surprised because my number is unlisted, I don't have a phone, I have a cell phone, my number is unlisted. And the phone rang in the middle of the night and usually I can't hear it, but I heard it, and I got up, and it was these guys from the Swedish Academy and I go: 'How did you get my phone number?' It turns out they called around and pretty soon my neighbour knocked at my door saying: 'We got a call, so we gave them your number." 4. Cutaway reporter 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George F. Smoot, Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner: "So they called and at first I thought I'd better be careful, this could be a hoax or something like that. But the guy sounded really serious and the next guy had a Swedish accent, so you know... I think I'd better take him really seriously and so finally somebody I knew got on the phone, so I thought this was either a really elaborate hoax or this is the real thing and I was kind of believing it but I thought I better get on the web and check." NASA TV NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, Maryland 6. Cutaway Nobel Co-Winner in Pyhsics John C. Mather and Dr. Edward J. Weiler, Director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre 7. SOUNDBITE (English) John C. Mather, Nobel Co-Winner in Physics: (Partly overlaid by wide of presser) "I did receive a phone call from Sweden this morning at quarter to six, and I rolled over and I thought, well, I'll talk to them for a moment. Then, I said I'd better sit up and turn on the light and I'd better wake up the wife. So I think she could guess what was going on even though I did not say bravo or anything right out loud. Then I talked to people on the telephone for the next hour because the phone was ringing consistently and constantly. And people calling to congratulate me and asking questions the kind of questions you are asking. Why did you do this, what is it for, why is it so important? And so it's been the same all day, I've had at least 500 e-mails since this morning." 8. Wide of NASA presser 9. Cutaway question 10. SOUNDBITE (English) John C. Mather, Nobel Co-Winner in Physics: (Partly overlaid by wide of presser) "Well I have always been excited to know how did we get here, from the very beginning of time to everything that has made it possible for planets to exist. I wanted to know about life, the origins of life. This is my particular kind of contribution to this subject. I like to speculate on what the future may bring, and scientists have written about that too. We don't know whether we are going to a giant wimp out of the universe where it fades away, or return to a giant collapse again." 13. Wide shot of presser STORYLINE Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for measuring the oldest light in the heavens, a feat described as "one of the greatest discoveries of the century" that convinced sceptics of the big-bang theory of the universe's origin. Smoot said when he received the phone call, he at first thought it was a hoax. Mather said he was still asleep when his phone rang early in the morning. That is exactly what COBE found. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...