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Alan Guth

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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Guth is the 431st most popular physicist (up from 454th in 2019), the 3,286th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,257th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Alan Guth ranks 431 out of 851. Before him are John Henry Poynting, Ányos Jedlik, Saul Perlmutter, Hantaro Nagaoka, Ernst Chladni, and Raoul Pictet. After him are Homi J. Bhabha, Boris Podolsky, Walther Ritz, William Stanley Jr., Walther Meissner, and Evgeny Lifshitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Alan Guth ranks 225. Before him are Mia Martini, Harry Reems, Włodzimierz Lubański, Chris Wallace, Larry David, and Mustafa Akıncı. After him are Rita Lee, Maria Farantouri, Riyoko Ikeda, Lydia Davis, Franco Trappoli, and Murray Perahia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 3,286 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Peter Hall (1955), Scott Bradley (1891), Bob Dole (1923), Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747), Ken Mattingly (1936), and Frank Serpico (1936). After him are Frank Zane (1942), David Packard (1912), James S. Sherman (1855), Dick Sargent (1930), Anna Lea Merritt (1844), and James L. Brooks (1940).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Alan Guth ranks 89. Before him are Philip Abelson (1913), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Robert W. Wood (1868), John Mauchly (1907), and Saul Perlmutter (1959). After him are William Stanley Jr. (1858), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Howard P. Robertson (1903), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), and Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898).

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