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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Guth has received more than 535,257 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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  • 34

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  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Alan Guth ranks 457 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alan Guth ranks 237Before 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.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 3,697 out of 18,182Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 90Before 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).