John C. Mather
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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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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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Mario MolinaAlso won NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
Lars OnsagerAlso won Rumford Prize
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Also won Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Margot FonteynAlso won Benjamin Franklin Medal
Saul PerlmutterAlso won Gruber Prize in Cosmology
John L. HallAlso won Fellow of the Optical SocietyAbout this person
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