On October 31, 2022, a meeting with John Cromwell Mather, the 2006 Nobel laureate in Physics, will be held in the Assembly Hall of the main building of Lviv Polytechnic National University.
The topic of the presentation is Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST (James Webb Space Telescope).
The meeting will take place online on the MS Teams platform from 15:00 to 16:00. The language of communication is English.
Briefly about the laureate
John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics (jointly with George Smoot) for discoveries in the field of cosmology. He works for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
One of the scientific leaders of the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) program. COBE is a space observatory for cosmological research. The main task of the observatory was to study the relict background of the universe (sometimes also called the microwave background). It was launched into orbit on November 18, 1989.
Observations by the observatory made it possible to measure the characteristics of the relict background of the universe with unprecedented accuracy. The results of the observatory’s observations had a huge impact on the formation of the modern picture of the world and the recognition of the theory as the main hypothesis of the formation of the universe.