# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-guth
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:48:34.058Z

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name: "Alan Guth"
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description: "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 universe."
tagline: "American theoretical physicist and cosmologist"
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birthDate: "1947-02-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump