John C. Mather (Q1629)
American astrophysicist and cosmologist (born 1946) who led the COBE FIRAS team whose measurements showed that the cosmic microwave background has a near-perfect blackbody spectrum; shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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American astrophysicist and cosmologist (born 1946) who led the COBE FIRAS team whose measurements showed that the cosmic microwave background has a near-perfect blackbody spectrum; shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics |
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7 August 1946
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