I doubt that this really belongs on Aceize, but in the interest of cataloging those characters who are active in the exploration and colonization of space I will include it. John C Mather of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center won the Nobel prize for physics for 'evidence that helped seal the big-bang theory of the universe'.

I will state publicly that I think the big bang theory is ridiculous, despite all the mathematics and apparently experiential evidence to back up the claim. Logically it doesn't make any sense, and in fact it seems to me to be nothing more than an elaborate, slightly modified, 'earth-centric' idea. (I realize that the big bang theory doesn't define earth as the center of the universe, but the theory is completely based on data collected from the central location of earth and seems to assume that any data outside the range of collected data will have negligible effects upon future calculations).