John Mather: The Collaborator

John Mather is a senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and a professor of physics at the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. In 2006, he and George Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.” The work, completed along with their teams, used the COBE satellite to all but confirm the Big Bang theory—and elevated cosmologists, individuals previously derided by “real” physicists as being “always in error, but never in doubt,” into proper practitioners of precision science.  Available on Amazon: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner  About Professor Brian Keating: https://www.youtube.com/drbriankeating Podcast in iTunes https://simonsobservatory.org/ https://briankeating.com/ https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbriankeating/