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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 ...
Jun 30, 2014 · Alan Guth: Waiting for the Big Bang. Three decades ago, the innovative physicist had a eureka moment that explained the universe. By Dan Vergano. Photographs by Deanne Fitzmaurice. July 01,...
The Quest to Discover the Fundamental Laws. As told by Alan H. Guth. 2014 KAVLI PRIZE IN ASTROPHYSICS. MORE ABOUT ALAN H. GUTH. I was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, on February 27, 1947. My parents lived in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, until I was 3 years old, when we moved to Highland Park, NJ, where I lived until I went away to college.
Mar 20, 2014 · The Guardian explores the theory of cosmic inflation, pioneered by MIT Professor Alan Guth in 1979. This week, scientists announced that they had spotted gravitational waves from the seconds after the formation of the Universe. The findings appear to confirm Guth’s seminal work.
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.
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. He grew up and attended the public schools in Highland Park, NJ, but skipped his senior year of high school to begin studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jul 31, 2012 · Alan Guth ’68, SM ’69, PhD ’72, the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at MIT, is among nine physicists worldwide selected as inaugural winners of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the Milner Foundation announced today.
