JHU astrophysicist and team win $5 million stimulus grant to build telescope
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 17:14
in Mathematics & Economics
A team led by Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has won a $5 million National Science Foundation grant - administered through the federal stimulus package - to build an instrument to probe what happened during the universe's first trillionth of a second, when it suddenly grew from submicroscopic to astronomical size in far less than time than it takes to blink your eye.