John C. Mather, a 2006 Nobel laureate in physics, will donate $300,000 of his $700,000 share of the prize to the Hertz Foundation. The money will endow a fellowship for one graduate student in astrophysics and cosmology every year.
Mr. Mather, a senior astrophysicist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center, split the prize with George F. Smoot, who donated part of his share in December.
A 1974 Hertz Fellow himself, Mr. Mather will announce his donation officially on Sunday, May 4, at the Goddard Space Flight Center. —Hurley Goodall
