Alan Guth
Physicist, Academic
1947 –
Who is Alan Guth?
Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory. Currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is the originator of the inflationary universe theory.
He graduated from MIT in 1968 in physics and stayed to receive a master's and a doctorate, also in physics.
As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980. Moving on to Stanford University Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1981, the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a positive vacuum energy density. The results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the case for cosmic inflation very compelling.
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- Born
- Feb 27, 1947
New Brunswick - Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
( - 1971) - Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics - Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
(1964 - )
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Cornell University
- Princeton University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Columbia University
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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