John C. Mather - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2006
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John C. Mather

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2006
for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation
Together with: George F. Smoot
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
8/7/1946
place of birth
Roanoke
Age
80 years
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1997
  • International Astronomical Union
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Astronomical Society
  • American Physical Society
employer
  • University of Maryland
occupation
  • astronomer
  • physicist
  • astrophysicist
  • researcher
educated at
  • Swarthmore College
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Newton High School
field of work
  • astrophysics
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