Another Swat grad win Nobel Prize

Colleges and Universities A-Z Swarthmore College
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<p>A Swat grad has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. John Mather (Highest Honors in Physics, Class of 1968) for his work on the big bang theory.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/nobel_prize_mather.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/nobel_prize_mather.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>That is the fifth Swarthmore grad to win a Nobel Prize and the second in the last three years. Edward C Prescott (Math major, Class of '62) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2004.</p>

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<p>great news! :)</p>