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Alan Guth. Alan Harvey Guth ( / ɡuːθ /; 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. Along with Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation." [1] .
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Alan Guth is a professor of physics at MIT and a Nobel laureate for his theory of inflation. He has worked on the early universe, cosmology, particle physics, and quantum gravity. He invented the inflationary universe model and calculated the spectrum of density fluctuations that led to structure in the universe.
Mar 20, 2014 · MIT physicist Alan Guth explains how new results bolster his 1980 theory of cosmic inflation, which describes the propulsion mechanism that drove the universe into the period of tremendous expansion from a mere dot into a dense ball. He discusses the significance of the new BICEP2 results, which measure the stretching effect of inflation on the geometry of space and the temperature nonuniformities of the cosmic microwave background.
Alan Guth, the physicist who proposed the theory of cosmic inflation, discusses how it explains the origin, structure and evolution of our universe. He also explores the possibility of primordial black holes, the seeds of dark matter, and the eternity of the multiverse.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica. 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, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned several scientific ...
- Alan Harvey Guth
- New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- February 27, 1947
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Jun 30, 2014 · Learn how the MIT physicist proposed the inflationary theory that explains the origin of the universe and its cosmic ripples. Read about his life, work, and Nobel hopes in this profile by Dan Vergano.
Learn how Alan H. Guth, a physicist who won the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, discovered the inflationary theory of the early universe. Read about his childhood, education, postdoc experiences, and the coincidences that led him to cosmology.
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