Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. John Mather coming to Johnson to talk James Webb
2017-06-15
On June 21 at 1 p.m., join Dr. John Mather, Nobel Prize winner in Physics and senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, in Teague Auditorium. Be sure to arrive early to get a good seat for this highly anticipated presentation.
If you’ve ever wondered what we’re going to learn from the James Webb Space Telescope, now’s your chance to find out. Mather will be at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to talk about the anticipated discoveries and extraordinary engineering challenges required to meet the scientific requirements.
As a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, he led the proposal efforts for the Cosmic Background Explorer mission (1974-76) and came to Goddard Space Flight Center to become the study scientist (1976-88), project scientist (1988-98) and also Principal Investigator for the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE).
Mather and the COBE team showed that the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50 parts per million (ppm), confirming the Big Bang theory to extraordinary accuracy.
Mather has served on advisory and working groups for the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, National Science Foundation for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the Center for Astrophysical Research in the Antarctic.
As senior project scientist (1995-present) for the Webb telescope, Mather leads the science team and represents scientific interests within the project management.
As winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Mather shares the prize with George F. Smoot of the University of California for their work using the COBE satellite to measure the heat radiation from the Big Bang.
Dr. John Mather will talk all things James Webb and the exciting discoveries NASA hopes to unearth on June 21 at 1 p.m. in the Teague Auditorium. Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
If you’ve ever wondered what we’re going to learn from the James Webb Space Telescope, now’s your chance to find out. Mather will be at NASA’s Johnson Space Center to talk about the anticipated discoveries and extraordinary engineering challenges required to meet the scientific requirements.
As a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, he led the proposal efforts for the Cosmic Background Explorer mission (1974-76) and came to Goddard Space Flight Center to become the study scientist (1976-88), project scientist (1988-98) and also Principal Investigator for the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE).
Mather and the COBE team showed that the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50 parts per million (ppm), confirming the Big Bang theory to extraordinary accuracy.
Mather has served on advisory and working groups for the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, National Science Foundation for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the Center for Astrophysical Research in the Antarctic.
As senior project scientist (1995-present) for the Webb telescope, Mather leads the science team and represents scientific interests within the project management.
As winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Mather shares the prize with George F. Smoot of the University of California for their work using the COBE satellite to measure the heat radiation from the Big Bang.
Dr. John Mather will talk all things James Webb and the exciting discoveries NASA hopes to unearth on June 21 at 1 p.m. in the Teague Auditorium. Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn