American astrophysicist and cosmologist
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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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."
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