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John C. Mather
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John C. Mather

Scientist · born August 7, 1946

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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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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~53Received the Benjamin Franklin Medal1999
  2. ~60Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2006

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