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Alan Guth

Alan Harvey Guth
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Alan Guth at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2007
Born (1947-02-27) 27 February 1947 (age 69)
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Residence United States
Nationality American
Fields Cosmology, Theoretical physics, Particle physics
Institutions Princeton
Columbia
Cornell
Stanford Linear Accelerator
MIT
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Francis E. Low
Known for Cosmic inflation
Influences Robert H. Dicke
Notable awards

MIT School of Science Prize for Undergraduate Teaching
Oscar Klein Medal (1991)
Franklin Medal for Physics of the Franklin Institute
Isaac Newton Medal of Institute of Physics (2009)
Dirac Prize of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2004)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)

Kavli Prize (2014)

MIT School of Science Prize for Undergraduate Teaching
Oscar Klein Medal (1991)
Franklin Medal for Physics of the Franklin Institute
Isaac Newton Medal of Institute of Physics (2009)
Dirac Prize of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2004)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)

Alan Harvey Guth (/ɡθ/; born February 27, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). He is currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Along with Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation.”

He graduated from MIT in 1968 in physics and stayed to receive a master's and a doctorate, also in physics.

As a junior particle physicist, Guth developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980. Moving on to Stanford University Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1981, the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a positive vacuum energy density (negative vacuum pressure). The results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the case for cosmic inflation very compelling.


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