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.

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...

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.

Alan Guth is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, known mainly for his work on elementary particle theory and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe, and particularly for the idea, which he developed around 1980, of cosmic inflation and the inflationary universe, the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of ...

Affiliated faculty, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics. 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 …

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.

Alan H. Guth (Photo credit: © Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)). I came to MIT as a freshman in 1964, and majored in physics. I was fascinated by the idea that the world could be described by precise mathematical laws, so I chose physics because it was the branch of science most closely connected with the quest to discover the ...

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.

2012年7月31日 · 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.

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.