1947 - Today
Alan Harvey Guth (; 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Guth has received more than 539,301 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Alan Guth is the 457th most popular physicist (down from 417th in 2019), the 3,697th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,142nd in 2019) and the 90th most popular American Physicist.
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Among physicists, Alan Guth ranks 457 out of 717. Before him are Charles Galton Darwin, Jules Antoine Lissajous, Giovanni Poleni, Walter Heitler, Alan Sokal, and Stefan Hell. After him are Eric Allin Cornell, Anton Zeilinger, Yuri Orlov, Max Abraham, Marian Smoluchowski, and Joseph Larmor.
1887 - 1962
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 451
1822 - 1880
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 452
1683 - 1761
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 453
1904 - 1981
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 454
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 455
1962 - Present
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 456
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 457
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 458
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 459
1924 - 2020
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 460
1875 - 1922
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 461
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 462
1857 - 1942
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 463
Among people born in 1947, Alan Guth ranks 237. Before him are James Dyson, John Mearsheimer, Massiel, Somchai Wongsawat, Co Adriaanse, and Anwar Ibrahim. After him are Karol Dobiaš, Godfrey Chitalu, Peter Strauss, Mick Box, Gerry Rafferty, and Meiko Kaji.
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 231
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 232
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 233
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 234
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 235
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 236
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 237
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 238
1947 - 1993
HPI: 52.08
Rank: 239
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 240
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.01
Rank: 241
1947 - 2011
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 242
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 243
Among people born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 3,697 out of 18,182. Before him are Vitas Gerulaitis (1954), John Leslie (1945), Adolphe Menjou (1890), Andre Norton (1912), Lucia Berlin (1936), and Harold Arlen (1905). After him are Rick Hoffman (1970), Katherine Jackson (1930), Ann Miller (1923), John Milius (1944), Jennifer Morrison (1979), and Vince Neil (1961).
1954 - 1994
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 3,691
1945 - 2010
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 3,692
1890 - 1963
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 3,693
1912 - 2005
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 3,694
1936 - 2004
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 3,695
1905 - 1986
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 3,696
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 3,697
1970 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 3,698
1930 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 3,699
1923 - 2004
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 3,700
1944 - Present
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 3,701
1979 - Present
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 3,702
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 3,703
Among physicists born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 90. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), John C. Mather (1946), Gene Amdahl (1922), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Grote Reber (1911), and Alan Sokal (1955). After him are Eric Allin Cornell (1961), John Henry Schwarz (1941), Robert Brout (1928), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), and William Stanley Jr. (1858).
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 84
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.58
Rank: 85
1922 - 2015
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 86
1959 - Present
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 87
1911 - 2002
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 88
1955 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 89
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 90
1961 - Present
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 91
1941 - Present
HPI: 51.96
Rank: 92
1928 - 2011
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 93
1898 - 1979
HPI: 51.80
Rank: 94
1924 - 2022
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 95
1858 - 1916
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 96