This work supported thebig-bang theory of theuniverse beginning. It made cosmology much more accurate. The Nobel Prize committee said: "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point forcosmology as a precision science."[1]
After being awarded hisPh.D. Professor Mather went to work at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University. He started the work on COBE there (1974-1976). More than 1,000 researchers, engineers and other workers made the COBE satellite. John Mather was in control of them all and created thetechnology for measuring the cosmic radiation.George Smoot had the job of measuring small changes in the temperature of the radiation.[1]
Professor Mather andJohn Boslough wrote all about the COBE teams work in a book calledThe Very First Light.[2]
