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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.
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.
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...
Jun 30, 2014 · June 30, 2014. • 20 min read. At the end of a quiet, carpeted hallway in MIT's physics department, a display case stands empty outside the office of physicist Alan Guth. Framed in blond wood...
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.
Mar 20, 2014 · The theory of cosmic inflation was first proposed in 1980 by Alan Guth, now the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at MIT. He discussed the significance of the new BICEP2 results with MIT News. Q: Can you explain the theory of cosmic inflation that you first put forth in 1980?
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 ...
