Alan Guth
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 77 |
Date of birth | February 27,1947 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | New Brunswick |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Residence | United States Of America |
Known for | Inflation |
Cosmic inflation; Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem; Inflaton | |
Books | The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins |
Job | Physicist |
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Astronomer | |
Cosmologist | |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Awards | Gruber Prize in Cosmology |
Franklin Medal | |
Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture | |
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics | |
Dirac Medal of the ICTP | |
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics | |
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics | |
Spous | Susan Tisch |
Influenc | Robert H. Dicke |
Children | Larry Guth |
Jennifer Lynn Guth | |
Academic advisor | Francis E. Low |
Notable student | Ma Chung-pei |
Katelin Schutz | |
Leonardo Senatore | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 541276 |
Alan Guth Life story
Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Along with Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, he won the 2014 Kavli Prize "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation." Guth's research focuses on elementary particle theory and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe.