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Dr. John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and George F. Smoot of the University of California won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics. Mather and Smoot analyzed data from NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Dr. John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mather shares the prize with George F. Smoot of the University of California for their collaborative work on understanding the Big Bang.
Mather and Smoot analyzed data from NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), which studied the pattern of radiation from the first few instants after the universe was formed. In 1992, the COBE team announced that they had mapped the primordial hot and cold spots in the cosmic microwave background radiation.


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http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/nobel_prize_mather.html

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