Abstract
On April 23, 1992 at 8:00 a.m. in Washington, DC, George Smoot and his team electrified the scientific community when they presented the results of their observations with the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE). Their data finally answered one of the long standing criticisms against big-bang cosmology: Where is the evidence for galaxy formation after the big-bang? Countless hours of observations and data reduction gave the answer. The evidence is in the minute fluctuations (wrinkles, in the otherwise uniform cosmic background radiation that impinges upon us from all quarters of the universe. Smoot's team had discovered what Stephen Hawking declared was "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time."