John C. Mather Net Worth, Age, Family, Wife, Biography, and More

John completed his Schooling in Roanoke and College at the University of California, Berkeley. His Highest Qualification is a Ph.D. in Physics.

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John C. Mather Awards and Achievement

• He was awarded the ‘NASA GSFC John C. Lindsay Memorial Award’ (1990).
• John received the ‘Rotary National Space Achievement Award’ (1991).
• In 1991, he got the ‘National Air and Space Museum Trophy’.
• He won the ‘American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Science Award’ (1993).
• John was honored with the ‘Discover Magazine Technology Award’ (1993).
• In 1995, he was awarded the ‘City of Philadelphia John Scott Award’.
• He got the ‘Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics’ (1999).
• He received the ‘Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers George W. Goddard Award’ (2005).
• John won the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ (2006).
• In 2006, he was awarded the ‘Gruber Prize’.
• He was honored with the ‘Golden Plate Award’ in the category of the American Academy of Achievement (2007).
• John got the ‘Robinson Prize’ (2008).
• He won the ‘India General President Gold Medal’ (2010).

 

John C. Mather Biography / Interesting Fact

• John C. Mather is a Popular Astrophysicist and Cosmologist, John is known for winning the  Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE).
• He was born in Roanoke, Virginia, United States.
• From his childhood, he was a bright student.
• He completed his B.Sc. in Physics at Swarthmore College.
• He was awarded the Swarthmore College Open Scholarship (honorary).
• In 1967, he participated in William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
• Mather came in the 30th place nationwide in William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
• He got NSF Fellowship and honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1968).
• Later he received Fellowship from Hertz Foundation (1970).
• In 1974, he did Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
• He won Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurels for Space/Missiles.
• He was the finalist for the ‘Discover Magazine Technology Award’.
• Mather won the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
• He received Fellowship from Goddard Space Flight Center (1994).
• He was honored with the ‘Hall of Fame Award’ by Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine.
• Mather became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997).
• He was awarded the Marc Aaronson Memorial Prize (1998).
• In the same year, he became a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• He won the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Prize in Cosmology (2006).
• In 2006, he was honored with Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite.
• This work helped to 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.
• He has worked for SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering.
• He was listed among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World (2007).
• Mather was the Commencement Speaker at the University of Maryland.
• In 2008, he was one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President “George W. Bush”.
• Mather requested emergency funding for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• He became a Member of the Optical Society of America (2010).
• He is a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland.
• In 2012, Mather was listed by Time magazine in a special issue on New Space Discoveries as one of the 25 most influential people in space.
• He appeared on TEDx Talks.

• Mather has worked as a professor of physics at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
• He was elected as a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (2020).
• He is the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
• On 25 December 2021, the space telescope launched to Lagrange point L2.

 

 

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Who is John C. Mather?

John C. Mather is a Popular Astrophysicist and Cosmologist, from Roanoke, Virginia, United States. John is known for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE).

 

What is John C. Mather’s Wife’s name?

John C. Mather’s Wife’s name is Jane Hauser Mather.

 

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