Public Service: A Nobel Calling

Chalk up another Nobel Prize for a federal employee. John C. Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has won the 2006 prize for physics, sharing the award with George F. Smoot of the University of California. The two scientists discovered "blackbody radiation" believed to date from the big bang that created the universe. "John would be a world-class scientist no matter where he had chosen to spend his career, but we at NASA are enormously proud that he has chosen to spend it with us," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.