FORA.tv Speaker - John Mather
Biography
Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational
Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research
centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. As an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New
York City), he led the proposal efforts for the Cosmic Background
Explorer (74-76), and came to GSFC to be the Study Scientist (76-88),
Project Scientist (88-98), and also the Principal Investigator for the
Far IR Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) on COBE. He showed that the
cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50
ppm.
As Senior Project Scientist (95-present) for the James Webb Space
Telescope, he leads the science team, and represents scientific
interests within the project management. He has served on advisory and
working groups for the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, and the NSF
(for the ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and for the CARA, the
Center for Astrophysical Research in the Antarctic).
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12.14.11 | 00:27:49 min
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