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The Nobel Laureates
John C. Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
George F. Smoot, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 
COBE
Presentation of the COBE project, NASA
 
Scientific articles
J. Mather et al., 1990, Astrophys. J (Letter) 354, 37
G. Smoot et al., 1992, Astrophys. J (Letter) 396, 1
R.W. Wilson, 1978, The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Les Prix Nobel, 113
 
Books
Mather, J.C. and Boslough, J. 1996: the very first light (BasicBooks 1996)
Smoot, G. and Davidson, K. 1993: Wrinkles in Time (Little, Brown and Company, London 1993)
Weinberg, S. 1993: The First Three Minutes, 2nd edition (BasicBooks 1988 & 1993)