John C. Mather
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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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- 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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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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1946 births21st-century American physicistsAmerican astronomersAmerican Nobel laureatesBenjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureatesColumbia University facultyFellows of Optica (society)Fellows of the American Astronomical SocietyFellows of the American Physical SocietyGoddard Space Flight CenterHonorary members of Optica (society)