John C. Mather

John C. Mather is an American astronomer, physicist, and astrophysicist born in Roanoke in 1946. He is educated at Swarthmore College and the University of California, Berkeley, and works as a researcher at the University of Maryland. His professional interests and field of work focus on astrophysics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Astronomical Union.

Mather has received several awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, the Rumford Prize, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His notable works include *The very first light*, *Thermal detectors as x-ray spectrometers*, *Cosmological background radiation satellite*, *Space telescopes and instrumentation I*, and *Cosmic background explorer*. He writes in English.