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 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".