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'Big' Evidence Earns NASA Scientist a Nobel Prize |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / UNLOCKING THE COSMOS |
| Author: Christopher Wanjek |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 946 Words, 6,106 Characters |
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In the early 1970s a young NASA scientist had a crazy idea to build a strange-looking microwave satellite to test the Big Bang theory. After much stress and many false starts, his satellite finally launched in 1989, and by 1990 found nearly irrefutable evidence to support the Big Bang theory.
On October 3, 2006 the Nobel Prize Committee announced that that scientist, John Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will receive the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics. He shares the prize with long-time colleague George Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
Until fairly recently very little was known about the origin of the universe. One theory, called the Big Bang, stated in the simplest of ter...
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...lsion Laboratory; Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephan Meyer of the University of Chicago; Philip Lubin of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Edward Wright of the University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas Murdock of Frontier Technology; and the estate of the late David T. Wilkinson of Princeton University.
Copyright © 2006 NASA (http:www.nasa.gov)
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