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World Science Festival: Pioneers in Science

TITLE: World Science Festival: Pioneers in Science
THEMES: Arts, Culture, & Media
GRADE LEVEL: 8-10
DATE/TIME: Thursday June 3, 9-10 AM EDT
COST: Free
Sign up: Invitation Only

In partnership with World Science Festival, GNG will be bringing the annual program, "Pioneers in Science" into the classroom. Pioneers in Science, now in its third year, seeks to excite and motivate high school students about their potential to make a mark with a science career. This year, middle and high school students will learn about the career and science of Nobel laureate and NASA astrophysicist John Mather.

In 2007, Mather was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. Students from across the country and around the world will have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Mather to learn about his groundbreaking career in science. The World Science Festival will run from June 2-6 in venues throughout New York City. For more information, visit worldsciencefestival.com

John C. Mather
Astrophysicist

Nobel laureate John Mather’s research in cosmology as part of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) team has been recognized as some of the most important work of the 20th century.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he led the proposal efforts for COBE. Later, he and his team showed that the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50 parts per million, which helped confirm the Big Bang theory of the universe. For the work, he received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006, along with George Smoot. According to the prize committee, “the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science.”

Dr. Mather is senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and the Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, the powerful successor to the great Hubble Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2014.

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