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:''For other persons with a similar name, see John Mather.'' John Cromwell Mather (born August 7, 1946, Roanoke, Virginia) 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 U.S. space agency's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2007, Mather was listed among ''Time'' magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. In October, 2012, he was listed again by ''Time'' magazine in a special issue on New Space Discoveries as one of 25 most influential people in space. Mather is also the project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a space telescope to be launched to L2 no earlier than 2018. In 2014, Mather delivered a major address on the Webb Space Telescope at the second Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands. ==Education and initial research== * 1964 Newton High School, Newton, New Jersey〔(John C. Mather autobiography ), Nobel Prize. Accessed June 29, 2008. "When I finished 8th grade, it was time to go to high school, and my parents decided to send me to Newton High School, where they thought we would get the best available education in our area."〕 * 1968 B.Sc. (Physics), Swarthmore College (Highest Honors) * 1974 Ph.D. (Physics), University of California, Berkeley * 1974-76 (NRC Postdoctoral Fellow), Columbia University Goddard Institute for Space Studies 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John C. Mather」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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