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Nobel Prize winner in Physics John Mather will explore the enigmas of physics at the Museum of Science and the Cosmos in Tenerife - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias • IAC
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John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) 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". This work helped cement the Big Bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." Mather is a senior astrophysicist a
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