English 3 October 2006 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 jointly to John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, and George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”. Pictures of…

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006 is awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their discovery of the basic form of the cosmic microwave background radiation as well as its small variations in different directions. The very detailed observations that the Laureates have carried out…

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Swedish Presentationstal av Professor Per Carlson, ledamot av , ordförande i Nobelkommittén för fysik, den 10 december 2006. Professor Per Carlson presenterar Nobelpriset i fysik 2006 i Stockholms Konserthus. Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Pristagare, mina damer och herrar, Blicka ut mot himlen en stjärnklar kväll och fascineras över det kosmiska skådespel som…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Per Carlson, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee in Physics, December 10, 2006. Professor Per Carlson delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen. Gaze into the sky…

Swedish 3 oktober 2006 har beslutat utdela 2006 års Nobelpris i Fysik gemensamt till John C. Mather NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, och George F. Smoot University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA “för upptäckten av den kosmiska bakgrundsstrålningens svartkroppsform och anisotropi”. Bilder från universums barndom Årets Fysikpris belönar arbeten som blickar tillbaka…

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006     1915 1918 1922 1927 1929 1940s 1949 1978 1989   1915 publishes his general theory of relativity for gravity. 1918 awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the law of blackbody radiation using energy quanta. 1922 Alexander Friedmann discovers an expanding Universe in…

I was born on Aug. 7, 1946 in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city near Blacksburg where my father was a young faculty member at the school now called Virginia Tech. For some generations, my family on both sides has been populated with scientists and school teachers. My father, Robert E. Mather, was starting his research…

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