John C. Mather

Also known as John Mather, John Cromwell Mather

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

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John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist who studies the universe and its origins. His work matters because it helps us understand fundamental questions about how the universe began and evolved.

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Born: 1946
Works: 6

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The very first light
Thermal detectors as x-ray spectrometers
Cosmological background radiation satellite
Space telescopes and instrumentation I
Cosmic background explorer

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This Is The Underground.2020

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,647x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,356x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,339x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x

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date of birth: 1946-08-07
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John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) 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".

This work helped cement the Big Bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."