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Alan Guth
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| Alan Harvey Guth | |
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 Alan Guth at Harvard University |
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| Born | 27 February 1947 New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality |  American |
| Field | Cosmology, Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | Princeton Columbia Cornell SLAC MIT |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Academic advisor | Francis E. Low |
| Known for | Cosmic inflation |
| Notable prizes | MIT School of Science Prize for Undergraduate Teaching,
The Franklin Medal for Physics of the Franklin Institute, Dirac Prize of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation (2004) |
Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe).
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 first developed the idea of inflation in 1979 at Cornell and then Stanford University after attending a Big Bang lecture by Robert Dicke. In 1981, Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation, 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.
Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He won the Eddington Medal in 1996.
Contents |
- "It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch". — A. H. Guth
- Guth, Alan, "The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins". 1998. ISBN 0-201-32840-2
- Alan H. Guth's webpage at MIT
- MIT Physics Department website
- MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
- Alan Guth - "Eternal inflation: Successes and questions"
- The Growth of Inflation, Symmetry magazine, December 2004/January 2005
- Guth's Grand Guess, Discover magazine, April 2002
- Additional photo
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| NAME | Guth, Alan Harvey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American Cosmologist, Theoretical Physics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 27 February 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |