Mather delivered an address on the James Webb Space Telescope at the second Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands
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John C. Mather
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".
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science · American astrophysicist and cosmologist (born 1946) · astronomer · physicist · astrophysicist · researcher · also John C. Mather, John Mather, John Cromwell Mather, Mather
Born 7 August 1946 · Q104651
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2007· 2 entries
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2007).
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Time magazine listed Mather among the 100 Most Influential People in The World
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2006· 4 entries
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Awarded Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2006).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded George David Birkhoff Prize (2003).
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1999· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1999).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Rumford Prize (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1995).
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1993· 1 entry
Won Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
Won NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991).
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-08-07.
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