<p>While award-winning professors can do and teach undergrads, I’m not on the wagon that they should be teaching introductory courses for undergrads. The biggest problem with expecting Nobel laureates to teach, in my opinion, is that many of them are decidedly past their prime at that point. It’s a bit much to demand retirement-aged professors to teach undergrads simply because they have a Nobel Prize.</p>
<p>(On a side note, I first saw George Smoot in his brief appearance on Big Bang Theory. He seems like a pretty cool professor to have.)</p>