As an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies at
Columbia University, he led the proposal efforts on COBE (1974-1976).
The success of COBE was the outcome of prodigious team work involving more than 1,000 researchers, engineers and other participants. John Mather coordinated the entire process and also had primary responsibility for the experiment that revealed the blackbody form of the microwave background radiation measured by COBE. George Smoot had main responsibility for measuring the small variations in the temperature of the radiation[2].
He chronicled his team's work in a book for the general public. The book, The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe[3] was co-written with John Boslough, and published in 1996.
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