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... Wikipedia
Born: 1947 (age 77 years), New Brunswick, NJ
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964–1969), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and more
Known for: Cosmic inflation; Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem; Inflaton
Children: Larry Guth
Doctoral advisor: Francis E. Low