John C. Mather

American astrophysicist and cosmologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1946 · age 80

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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2007NASA Distinguished Service MedalAward2006Gruber Prize in CosmologyAwardNobel Prize in PhysicsAward2003George David Birkhoff PrizeAward1999Benjamin Franklin MedalAward1996Rumford PrizeAward1995John Scott AwardAward1993Dannie Heineman Prize for AstrophysicsAward1991NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement MedalAward1946Born7 August 1946

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NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer satellite mission, the COBE, laid the foundations for modern cosmology by measuring the spectrum and anisotropy of the and discovering the . ...
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… the technical question was, “Is the Big Bang the right story? Is the expanding universe the right story?” And there are a lot of sub-questions in that.
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