John Cromwell Mather Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for John Cromwell Mather, based on 7 World History Database records associated with United States of America.

7 records1977–20062 events3 places

Chronological biography

1977

COBE1977

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Mather begins leading work that develops into the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite mission

1985

COBE1985

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Mather leads instrument and mission planning for COBE to test the spectrum of the microwave background

1989

COBE18 November 1989

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Cape Canaveral

Mather leads COBE science as NASA launches the satellite to measure Big Bang relic radiation

1990

COBE1990

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Mather reports that COBE measured the microwave background spectrum as an almost perfect blackbody

1992

COBE23 April 1992

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Mather helps present COBE results confirming the blackbody spectrum and anisotropy evidence

1994

COBE1994

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Mather helps publish final COBE spectrum results that strongly support a hot dense early universe

2006

Nobel Prize10 December 2006

Science / Astronomy · Physicist · Stockholm

Mather receives the Nobel Prize for COBE measurements of the microwave background spectrum

Titles and roles

Physicist

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.