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John C. Mather

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John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) with George Smoot. This work helped 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." Mather is a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. In 2007, Time magazine listed Mather among the 100 Most Influential People in The World. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John C. Mather is the 273rd most popular physicist (up from 321st in 2019), the 1,252nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,620th in 2019) and the 60th most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, John C. Mather ranks 273 out of 851. Before him are Johannes Rydberg, Jack Steinberger, Yang Chen-Ning, David J. Wineland, Pierre Agostini, and Gerard 't Hooft. After him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Claude-Louis Navier, Daniel Rutherford, John Robert Schrieffer, David Gross, and Mihajlo Pupin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, John C. Mather ranks 96. Before him are Daniel Goleman, Chris Slade, Julian Barnes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Gerard 't Hooft, and Birutė Galdikas. After him are Ahmed Zewail, Brian Cox, Catharine MacKinnon, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Marshall, and Lasse Hallström.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John C. Mather ranks 1,252 out of 20,380. Before him are Brendan Fraser (1968), Eliot Ness (1903), Mickey Rooney (1920), Leon Festinger (1919), Tom Waits (1949), and Robert Benton (1932). After him are Wyatt Earp (1848), Robert E. Howard (1906), Raymond Moody (1944), E. O. Wilson (1929), John Dickinson (1732), and Jim Jones (1931).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, John C. Mather ranks 60. Before him are Leon M. Lederman (1922), John L. Hall (1934), John Archibald Wheeler (1911), Julian Schwinger (1918), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and David J. Wineland (1944). After him are John Robert Schrieffer (1931), David Gross (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), and John Clauser (1942).

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