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April 28, 2008
Another Nobel Prize Winner Donates Share of Award to Endow Fellowship
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
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Sounds like he already has announced it, at least to somebody. Good for him for making such good use of the prize.
— J. Ward Apr 28, 04:38 PM #
This kind of donation is especially praiseworthy coming from someone with a .gov email address — a donor for whom $300,000 must be a very large amount.
— S. Britchky Apr 28, 04:59 PM #