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Guth was born to a Jewish family in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1947 and grew up across the Raritan River in Highland Park, where he attended the local public schools. After his junior year at Highland Park High School , [6] he left school and enrolled in a five-year program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he could get his ...
Alan Harvey Guth was born on 27 February 1947 in the small town of New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, to a middle-class Jewish couple, Hyman and Elaine Guth, owners of a small grocery store and a dry-cleaning establishment. His early childhood was unremarkable, although he showed a strong aptitude for mathematics.
Alan Guth – American theoretical physicist and cosmologist; Lawrence Krauss (1954–) – professor of physics at Arizona State University; popularizer of science; speaks regularly at atheist conferences like Beyond Belief and Atheist Alliance International
Jun 30, 2014 · "That's sort of the way that Jewish families in New Jersey handled things; that was the norm." In the early 1960s, when he was in high school, physics was at the height of its Cold War prestige.
Professor Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor Paul Steinhardt of the University of Pennsylvania write, “The instant of creation remains unexplained.” Professor Joseph Silk of the University of California at Berkeley chose the following title for his recent book on cosmology: The Left Hand of Creation .
- Nathan Aviezer
The theory of inflation, proposed in the early 1980s by Alan Guth and others, says that for an extremely small fraction of a second before the Big Bang–much less time than it would take light to cross the nucleus of an atom–the universe expanded exponentially, inflating countless random quantum events in the process.
Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde ( Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Ли́нде; born March 2, 1948) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist and the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University . Linde is one of the main authors of the inflationary universe theory, as well as the theory of eternal inflation and ...
