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Lusscroft Farm Native Wins Nobel Prize
for Discovering Secret of the Universe,
By Laurie Gordon (Sparta Independent Sept 20, 2006)
From atop a hill in the heart of Sussex Country’s
undeveloped, bucolic countryside, a young John Mather often gazed up at an
infinite froth of stars, asking himself, as many do, “Where did they all come
from?” Little could he have known that some day he would answer that question.
It was the late 1950s and already he was entranced with space, and thanks to his
parents, science of any sort. He didn’t know then how far his fascination
would take him.
Most recently, it took him to Stockholm, Sweden, where this farm boy from Sussex
County accepted the Nobel Prize in Physics. Read
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New Jersey Herald Pictorial October 21, 2007
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