John C. Mather

John Cromwell Mather (lahir pada 1946), adalah merupakan seorang ahli astrofiizik dan ahli kosmologi Amerika Syarikat. 

Beliau merupakan seorang ahli astrofiizik veteran di NASA bertempat di Pusat Penerbangan Angkasa Goddard di Maryland dan professor "adjunct" fizik di University of Maryland, College Park. Beliau telah dianugerahkan Hadiah Nobel dalam Fizik 2006, berkongsi dengan George F. Smoot kerana "penemuan mereka terhadap bentuk jasad hitam dan anisotrofi of the latarbelakang sinaran gelombang mikro kosmik". Penemuan ini membantu mengukuhkan teori Big-bang alam semesta denan menggunakan satelit COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) dan telah memulakan era "ketepatan kosmologi", merujuk kepada ahli kosmologi University of Chicago, Michael Turner. 

 Biografi 

 Permulaan penyelidikan dan pendidikan 
 1968 B.A. (Physics), Swarthmore College
 1974 Ph.D. (Physics), University of California, Berkeley

 Penglibatan dalam COBE 
Kejayaan COBE adalah hasil kerja kumpulan yang melibatkan lebih daripada 1,000 penyelidik-penyelidik, jurutera-jurutera dan ahli-ahli yang lain. John Mather menyusun/ mengkoordinasi keseluruhan  proses dan juga mempunyai tanggungjawab utama bagi  eksperimen yang telah mendedahkan bentuk jasad hitam dalam sinaran gelombang mikro yang telah diukur oleh COBE. George Smoot juga mempunyai tanggungjawab mengukur variasi-variasi yang ekcil dalam suhu gelombang tersebut.Press release: Pictures of a newborn Universe.

He chronicled his team's work in a book for the general public. The book,  The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe, by John C. Mather and John Boslough, Basic Books edition (November 1998) ISBN 046501576X was co-written with John Boslough, and published in 1996.

 Projek terkini 

 Anugerah 
 Open Scholarship (honorary), Swarthmore, 1964-68
 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 1967, 30th place nationwide
 NSF Fellowship and honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1968-70
 Hertz Foundation Fellowship, 1970-74
 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award (NASA-GSFC), 1990
 Rotary National Space Achievement Award, 1991
 National Air and Space Museum Trophy, 1991
 Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurels, 1992, for Space/Missiles
 Discover Magazine Technology Award finalist, 1993
 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Science Award, 1993
 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics, 1993 (presented Jan. 1994)
 Goddard Fellow, 1994, GSFC
 Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Swarthmore College, 1994
 John Scott Award, City of Philadelphia, 1995
 Rumford Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996
 Fellow, American Physical Society, 1996
 Hall of Fame, Aviation Week and Space Technology, 1997
 Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1997
 Marc Aaronson Memorial Prize, 1998
 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, Franklin Institute, 1999
 George W. Goddard Award, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2005
 Cosmology Prize, with COBE Team, Peter Gruber Foundation, 2006
 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006

 Pautan luar 
 Interview with John Mather in SPIE's oemagazine 
 Short biography at the Goddard Space Flight Center
 Berkeley lab article

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