Alan Guth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alan Guth

American theoretical physicist and cosmologist

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1947

Place of Birth: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Profession: astronomer, professor, physicist, university teacher, cosmologist, science writer, non-fiction writer, theoretical physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Alan Harvey Guth (; born February 27, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe).
He is 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.”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.
Moving on to Stanford University Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation in 1981, 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).
The results of the WMAP mission in 2006 made the case for cosmic inflation very compelling.