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The 2007 Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Memorial Lecturer: John C. Mather  Event Program 
The twelfth award of the Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Memorial Lectureship and Medal honors the distinguished
American cosmologist Dr. John C. Mather of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. John Mather is presently the newly appointed head of the Office of the Chief Scientist at the NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., who, along with his staff, will be providing primary scientific advice to the Science Mission Directorate (SMD). In addition to this, he remains Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (planned launch: 2013), and Senior Astrophysicist and Goddard Fellow at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. John Mather received his B.A. in Physics with highest honors from Swarthmore College in 1968, and completed his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Califormia, Berkeley in 1974 with perfect grades. His list of awards since these auspicious beginnings encompasses 38 different awards and fellowships, culminating, most recently, with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 (sharing the prize with Dr. George F. Smoot, of the University of California, Berkeley), "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. He has worked on
far-reaching projects all over
the world, and has advised or worked with project groups at NASA, the National Academy of Sciences,
the National Science Foundation, and CARA (the Center for Astrophysical Research in the Antarctic).
The Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Memorial Lectureship and Medal Program Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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