The smoot / ˈsmuːt / is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R. Smoot, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
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Nearly 60 years after the smoot first appeared on the Mass. Ave. bridge, the MIT-born unit of measurement will be recalibrated to the exact measurements of its namesake, Oliver Smoot ’62.
Smoot: The Most Hilarious Mathematical Unit A smoot is a nonstandard unit of length that originated at MIT in the 1950s.
Smoot Conversion Charts This chart provides a summary of Smoot conversions to different Length units.
Since I (George Smoot) was a n MIT student and then graduate (class of 1966 and 1970), many people have asked if I was the Smoot used to measure the distance across the Harvard bridge which stretches from back-bay Boston to Cambridge and carries the traffic from Massachusetts avenue which is the main street cutting through MIT at that point. I always denied it but many people were sure since ...
Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe, has died. He was 80.
Big Bang theorist and Nobel laureate George Smoot dies | AP News