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English: John C. Mather won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006. His work has included analysis of the data from NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer, and has been conducted at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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3 October 2006, 23:22:08

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NASA: Nasa News: NASA Scientist Shares Nobel Prize for Physics

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