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Alan Guth

American theoretical physicist and cosmologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1947 · age 79

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."

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2014Kavli Prize in AstrophysicsAward2012Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsAward2009Isaac Newton MedalAward2006Clarivate Citation LaureatesAward2004Gruber Prize in CosmologyAward2002ICTP Dirac MedalAward2001Benjamin Franklin MedalAward1996Eddington MedalAward1992Lilienfeld PrizeAward1991Oskar Klein MedalAward1947Born27 February 1947

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Kavli Prize in Astrophysics2014
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics2012
Isaac Newton Medal2009
Clarivate Citation Laureates2006
Gruber Prize in Cosmology2004
ICTP Dirac Medal2002
Benjamin Franklin Medal2001
Eddington Medal1996
Lilienfeld Prize1992
Oskar Klein Medal1991
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Guth's research focuses on elementary particle theory and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe.

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Born 1947 · age 79

The same award as Alan

Brian SchmidtBoth received Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsJim PeeblesBoth received Eddington MedalMartin ReesBoth received Isaac Newton MedalYakov SinaiBoth received ICTP Dirac MedalMichael E. BrownBoth received Kavli Prize in AstrophysicsSandra FaberBoth received Gruber Prize in Cosmology