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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. Along with Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation."
Jun 30, 2014 · "It" is not just any prize but one thing in particular: a citation for the Nobel Prize in physics. Ever since his remarkable work analyzing the gravitational ripples after the big bang,...
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. Courtesy of The Kavli Prize | YouTube
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....
Guth, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earned several scientific awards for his work, including the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2001), the Dirac Medal (2002), and the Kavli Prize (2014), the latter of which he shared with Andrei Linde and Alexei Starobinsky.
Aug 7, 2012 · Aug 7, 2012. Amy Marcott. slice.mit.edu. Filed Under. Professor Alan Guth told Popular Science that the money is already in his account. It joined his $200 balance. You can imagine how it is for physicists sitting around hoping for a Nobel Prize. First there's all that research.
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.
