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The cosmologist Alan Guth has won the 2009 Isaac Newton medal of the Institute of Physics. The American physicist was honoured for “his invention of the inflationary universe model, his recognition ...

Scientists became excited not long ago when new observations suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. It had been thought that expansion should be slowing. The new findings give ...

GREENBELT, Md. — We are acquainted with the universe through science, but we are intimate with it through ancestry. Mingling in our blood is the breath of creation — hydrogen molecules born billions ...

In July physics professor Alan Guth ’68, SM ’69, PhD ’72, was pleased to learn that an extra $3 million had been deposited in his bank account. Guth was one of nine physicists worldwide to find their ...

Alan Guth is the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate ...

This week, Russian tech investor Yuri Milner awarded nine physicists $3 million — each. The Fundamental Physics Prize is brand new and recognizes “transformative advances in the field.” We talk to one ...

Alan Guth’s career was up in the air. As an ambitious postdoc at Cornell University in 1978, Guth was looking for a way to contribute to his field of particle physics, but his research had attracted ...

At the end of a quiet, carpeted hallway in MIT's physics department, a display case stands empty outside the office of physicist Alan Guth. Framed in blond wood and clear glass, the empty cube waits ...

Alan Guth, the MIT physicist who scrawled the words “spectacular realization” in his notebook more than three decades ago after working out some of the details of the first split-seconds of the ...