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Jun 14, 2024 · John Mather will discuss the challenges of organizing and running two teams: the COBE science team and the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) science team. COBE’s three instruments presented unique challenges.
Jun 4, 2024 · Mission Name: COBE Principal Investigator: Dr. John C. Mather. Description. The far-IR absolute spectrophotometer (FIRAS) is a cryogenically cooled polarizing Michelson interferometer used as a Fourier transform spectrometer. The instrument points along the spin axis and has a 7-deg field of view.
Jun 2, 2024 · John C. Mather: John Mather is an astrophysicist who, along with George Smoot, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for their work on the COBE satellite, particularly for the precise measurements of the CMB’s blackbody spectrum, which supported the Big Bang theory.
Jun 5, 2024 · Dr. Mather won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission, which made the first detailed observations of the cosmic microwave background. From 1995 to 2023, he was the Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
1 day ago · Mother Teresa - Wikipedia. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
Jun 17, 2024 · Increase Mather, Congregational minister, author, and educator, who was a determining influence in the councils of New England during the period when leadership passed into the hands of the first native-born generation. He was the son of Richard Mather, son-in-law of John Cotton, and father of Cotton Mather.
3 days ago · Nobel Prize - Physics, Discovery, Innovation: The table provides a chronological list of recipients of the Nobel Prize for Physics.
