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John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot.
Learn about the life and achievements of John C. Mather, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 for his contributions to cosmology. Read his biography, from his childhood in New Jersey to his work at NASA and the Cosmic Background Explorer.
Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. He is also the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope.
John C. Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.) is an American physicist, who was corecipient, with George F. Smoot, of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics for discoveries supporting the big-bang model.
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John C Mather is a renowned scientist who led the COBE and JWST projects and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006. He has also served on many advisory and working groups for NASA, NSF, and other organizations in the fields of astronomy, cosmology, and exoplanets.
Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. He is also the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope.
Nobel Laureate John C. Mather, the leader of the team at NASA that built the Webb, explains how the telescope will observe the first galaxies to form in the early universe, peer behind clouds of cosmic dust and gas to reveal stars being born and uncover new details about places like Europa and Titan, which could harbor life.
