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Alan Guth

1947 - Today

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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. 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 developed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1979 at Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Guth has received more than 592,413 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Guth is the 454th most popular physicist (up from 457th in 2019), the 3,257th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,687th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alan Guth ranks 454 out of 851. Before him are Lyman Spitzer, Hagen Kleinert, Louis Harold Gray, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Boris Podolsky, and Erich Hückel. After him are Marietta Blau, Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, Berta Karlik, William Watson, Jules Jamin, and Rashid Sunyaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alan Guth ranks 231. Before him are Anatoli Polivoda, Jiří Kylián, Pauline Moran, Steve Howe, Louis Michel, and Emmylou Harris. After him are Harry Redknapp, Co Adriaanse, Andréa Ferréol, Michel Berger, Benoît Jacquot, and Petra Kelly.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 3,257 out of 20,380. Before him are Benjamin Spock (1903), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), David Ausubel (1918), Dan Hedaya (1940), Emmylou Harris (1947), and Warner Baxter (1889). After him are Paul Winfield (1939), Nolan Bushnell (1943), Bob Pettit (1932), Helen Kane (1904), Jonathan Haidt (1963), and Jason Bateman (1969).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 95. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), and Lyman Spitzer (1914). After him are Clarence Zener (1905), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), Gordon Gould (1920), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Edwin H. Land (1909), and Gene Amdahl (1922).

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