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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 ...
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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,...
Research Areas. Astrophysics Theory, High Energy and Particle Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory. (617) 253-6265. guth@ctp.mit.edu. Office: 6-322. Affiliated Center (s): MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Assistant: Scott Morley. Research Interests.
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 place.
Feb 6, 2018 · The theory—which was pioneered in the 1980s by Alan Guth, Andrei Linde, Aleksei Starobinsky, and (of all people) Steinhardt, almost automatically leads to the hypothesis that our universe is a ...
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.
Jul 31, 2012 · Guth, 65, has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1980. Much of his research has examined the application of theoretical particle physics to the early universe: What can particle physics tell us about the history of the universe? What can cosmology tell us about the fundamental laws of nature?
