University of Maryland Winter Commencement Address

Dec 20, 2008

University of Maryland, College Park

John Mather delivered the commencement address to the winter graduates of the Universitiy of Maryland in the Comcast Center on the campus in College Park, Maryland. John Mather, a 2006 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope project. He is based at NASA's Goddard Space .. Read More
John Mather delivered the commencement address to the winter graduates of the Universitiy of Maryland in the Comcast Center on the campus in College Park, Maryland. John Mather, a 2006 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope project. He is based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where he is a senior astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory. He is also an adjunct professor in physics at the University of Maryland.

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00:00:06 Unidentified Speaker NOW JOHN MATHER 2006 CO-WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. HE RECENTLY GAVE THE WINTER COMMENCEMENT...
00:00:25 Unidentified Speaker THE SENIOR COUNCIL APPOINTED A COMMITTEE OF GRADUATING SENIORS AND OTHER STUDENTS TO SELECT THE UNIVERSITY'S...
00:00:53 Unidentified Speaker ON BEHALF OF THE SENIOR COUNCIL AND SELECTION COMMITTEE IT IS MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE OUR MOST DISTINGUISHED...
00:03:32 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, MARISA. SO, MARISA, PRESIDENT MOLEST, GRADUATING STUDENTS, PARENTS, FRIENDS, UNIVERSITY...
00:04:29 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE HERE TO GIVE THANKS TO THOSE THAT MADE THE JOURNEY POSSIBLE. WE THANK THE CITIZENS OF MARYLAND...
00:13:56 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THE UNIVERSITY WILL NOW CONFER AN HONORARY DOCTOR OF JIENS R SCIENCE TO DR. JOHN C. MATHER....
00:14:19 Unidentified Speaker THE CAUSE IS WORK IN ASTROPHYSICS HAS ABLED US TO CONFIRM THE BIG BANG THEORY THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL...
00:15:24 Unidentified Speaker UNDER THE AUTHORITY GRANTED BY THE STATE OF MARYLAND TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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