http://www.nsbp.org National Society of Black Physicists Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, National Society of Black Physicists Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@nsbp.org Sat, 25 May 2013 11:57:31 GMT Release http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/72/ NASA scientist Dr. John C. Mather will be the dinner keynote speaker at the 2008 Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists on Thursday, February 21. The event will be at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Dr. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. In 2006 Mather was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with George Smoot, for ...of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) began in 1974 at NASA Goddard. It was launched in 1989 to measure microwave and infrared light from the early universe. COBE determined that the cosmic microwave background, which is essentially the afterglow of the Big Bang, has a temperature of 2.725 +/- 0.002 Kelvin, or about minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit. This... http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/72/ noemail@nsbp.org Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT