# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-c-mather
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:55:32.169Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-c-mather"
name: "John C. Mather"
slug: "john-c-mather"
description: "John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smoot for the \"for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation\"."
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country:
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birthDate: "1946-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump