* Astronomy

Mysteries of the Big Bang and beyond

Interview with John Cromwell Mather, co-winner of the Physics Nobel in 2006.

John Cromwell Mather, whose vocation is to look at stars and planets through powerful telescopes, himself became a star attraction during the 97th Indian Science Congress held in Thiruvananthapuram from January 3 to 7, 2010. He mesmerised the big audience at the "Space Summit", which was organised as a part of the Congress on January 4, on the topic "From the Big Bang to Life in the Universe - Past and Present, NASA's Astrophysics Projects". He is a senior Astrophysicist and cosmologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, Maryland, United States, and Senior Project Scientist working on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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