The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
Awarded on: 2006-10-03
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
Affiliations:
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – Greenbelt, MD, USA
John C. Mather
Born: 1946-08-07 in Roanoke, VA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American astrophysicist and cosmologist (born 1946)
Biography
John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.