Alan Guth

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cosmologist human theoretical physicist

Alan Guth is an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation, which explains the rapid expansion of the early universe.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cosmologist → human → theoretical physicist →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Science in Physics → Doctor of Philosophy in Physics →
awardReceived	Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics → Dirac Prize → Eddington Medal → Fundamental Physics Prize → Gruber Cosmology Prize → Oskar Klein Medal →
birthDate	1947-02-27 →
birthPlace	New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
describedBySource	scientific literature on cosmic inflation →
doctoralAdvisor	Francis Low →
educatedAt	Massachusetts Institute of Technology → Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science →
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
familyName	Guth →
fieldOfWork	cosmology → particle physics → theoretical physics →
genre	popular science writing →
givenName	Alan →
hasAcademicAdvisor	Francis Low →
hasWritten	The Inflationary Universe →
influenced	Andrei Linde → Paul Steinhardt → modern inflationary cosmology →
knownFor	cosmic inflation → inflationary universe theory → new inflation model →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Sciences →
notableIdea	eternal inflation → false vacuum inflation →
notableWork	Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems →
occupation	physicist → university teacher →
positionHeld	Professor of Physics at MIT → Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at MIT →
researchInterest	Big Bang cosmology → early universe → quantum field theory in curved spacetime →
workLocation	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
eternal inflation → false vacuum inflation →	proposedBy
inflationary universe theory →	developedBy
Wolf Prize in Physics →	hasLaureate
Institute Professor at MIT →	hasNotableHolder
Gruber Cosmology Prize →	notableRecipient
Guth →	usedBy