John C.
Mather
Year
1999
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Greenbelt, Maryland
Citation
For his vision and management of experiments confirming the radiation spectrum remnant from the Big Bang.
John C. Mather is awarded a Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics for his scientific vision, proposal, and management of the cosmic background explorer experiments and its far infra-red astronomical spectrometer. His work helped to confirm the black-body radiation spectrum remnant from the Big Bang.
Information as of 1999