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Alan Guth
Alan Harvey Guth 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 unive…
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Born 27 February 1947 · Q323316
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2014· 3 entries
Ars Technica: Topic: Alan Guth
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Won Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2014).
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Was a co-recipient of the Kavli Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, together with Andrei Linde of Stanford University, and Alexei Starobinsky of the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics,
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Won Isaac Newton Medal (2009).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2006).
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Made the case for cosmic inflation very compelling
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2005· 1 entry
Guth won the award for the messiest office in Boston, organised by The Boston Globe
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Won ICTP Dirac Medal (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2001).
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1996· 2 entries
Won Eddington Medal (1996).
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And the 2009 Isaac Newton Medal, awarded by the British Institute of Physics
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Lilienfeld Prize (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Won Oskar Klein Medal (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
“It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
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1981· 1 entry
The idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a positive vacuum energy density (negative vacuum pressure)
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1979· 1 entry
At Cornell and gave his first seminar on the subject in January 1980
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1978· 1 entry
When he attended a lecture by Robert Dicke about the flatness problem of the universe
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1972· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964–1972).
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1971· 3 entries
Married Susan Tisch, his high school sweetheart
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1971).
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To 1974, Columbia 1974 to 1977, Cornell 1977 to 1979, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 1979 to 1980
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1968· 1 entry
In physics and stayed to receive a master's and a doctorate, also in physics
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1964· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1964).
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1947· 2 entries
Born 1947-02-27.
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And grew up across the Raritan River in Highland Park, where he attended the local public schools
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