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Alan Harvey Guth (/ ɡ uː θ /; born February 27, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is the Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT Professor Alan Guth studies the early universe. He works on inflation, including the possibility of igniting inflation in a hypothetical laboratory to create a new universe and whether inflation is eternal – it’s always going on, somewhere in the universe.
Physicist Alan Guth, the father of cosmic inflation theory, describes emerging ideas about where our universe comes from, what else is out there, and what caused it to exist in the first...
American physicist Alan Guth was best known for proposing the theory of an inflationary universe, a variation of the big-bang model that was highly influential in guiding modern cosmological thought.
Guth, Alan H. Affiliated Faculty. Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics. 6-209. Contact Information. office: 617-253-6265. guth@ctp.mit.edu. Physics Faculty Page. Professor Alan Guth was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1947.
Mar 20, 2014 · MIT Professor Alan Guth talks to BBC News about the new scientific evidence that appears to support a Big Bang Theory for the origin of the universe. Guth was one of the first physicists to propose the theory of cosmic inflation.
Guth has been awarded the Franklin Medal for Physics, the Eddington Medal, the Isaac Newton Medal, the Dirac Prize, and the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, and has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Alan H. Guth (Photo credit: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)). I came to MIT as a freshman in 1964, and majored in physics. I was fascinated by the idea that the world could be described by precise mathematical laws, so I chose physics because it was the branch of science most closely connected with the quest to discover the ...
Feb 1, 2003 · Alan Guth’s theory of inflation revolutionized our view of how the universe was created.
Alan Guth. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
