Two American scientists won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics has been announced today, and the winner is the two American scientists: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot with scientific work "discovering the formation of black objects and counting isotropic of cosmic remnant radiation (CMB) ".

CMB is the oldest light in the universe, it exists around us and formed about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Scientists believe that the characteristics of CMB tell them about the evolution of the universe.

John C. Mather and George F. Smoot began their research with NASA's Cobe satellite - launched in 1989. According to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, measurements from this satellite helped to understand. about the age of the universe, galaxies and stars by calculating the CMB temperature.

George F. Smoot scientist (Photo: TTO)

Scientist John C. Mather told a group of television reporters outside his home in Hyattsville, Maryland today after receiving the Nobel Prize - Photo: Reuters

According to the award committee, the observations that the two scientists obtained from Cobe satellites played an important role in the development of modern cosmology to become the exact science of today. The results of their study reinforced the Big Bang theory - the theory that the universe was formed after a big explosion occurred 13.7 billion years ago.

Mather, 60, is an experienced astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center of the US Space Agency (NASA) in Maryland. Smoot, 61, is a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Two scientists John C. Mather (right) and George F. Smoot (Photo: TTO)

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