LSC is proud to honor astrophysicist John Mather as one of this year’s three recipients of the Genius Awards, which will be presented at the 30th Anniversary Genius Gala on May 22, 2023!

Nobel laureate John Mather, 74, is Senior Astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, the most advanced technology ever made by humans.

It took $10 billion, 20,000 people, and lots of out-of-the-box problem-solving to build the Webb Space Telescope, an extraordinary instrument that pushed so many technological boundaries its success wasn’t guaranteed. Now the Webb has its eye on the early universe billions of years ago, and is poised to discover exotic new cosmological objects never before imagined by astronomers.

Click here to learn more about this year’s Genius Gala.

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