Kansas State University will host Nobel Iaureate John C. Mather from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for the 2023 Chester Peterson Jr. Public Lecture in Physics.
Mather is a senior astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center and a professor of physics at the University of Maryland. He has been the leader of the James Webb Space Telescope science team since the project began in 1995, and Mather was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics with George Smoot in 2006.
Mather will present “Opening the infrared Treasure Chest with the James Webb Space Telescope” at 101 Cardwell Hall. The James Webb Space Telescope, launched on Dec. 25th, 2021, produces images of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and star-forming regions and planets. In his lecture, Mather will describe how the team built the Webb telescope, what they have found, and what the future might hold.
The lecture is free and open to the public, and it will take place from 4:30pm-6:30pm on Tuesday. Refreshments will be provided before the lecture at 4 pm in 119 Cardwell Hall.
