The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
October 3, 2006
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to:
John C. Mather
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA
For the telephone interview with Professor John C. Mather immediately following the announcement of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, October 3, 2006 kindly click here:
George F. Smoot
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".
Dr John C. Mather and the Cosmic Background Explorer Team also recieved the 2006 Comology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation for
"ground-breaking studies, looking back over 13 billion years to the early universe and confirming, that the universe was born in a hot Big Bang"
during the XXVIth GA IAU held in August in Prague.
For J. C. Mather lecture from Prague (Peter Gruber Lecture) kindly click here.
