Alan Guth

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1947

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

49

Total plays

65

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

Works

129

Cited by

19,561

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

   · 2013 · cited 34,830x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 24,222x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,894x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,620x

5. DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

   · 2018 · cited 18,284x

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Quotes

• “The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.”
• “It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.”
• “The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.”
• “It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory—or a universe in your backyard—by man-made processes.”
• “We should not act like we know that the universe began with the Big Bang... we'll see that there are strong suggestions that the Big Bang was perhaps not really the beginning of existence, but really just the beginning of our local universe, often called a pocket universe.”
• “The conventional Big Bang theory does not say anything about what caused the expansion. It really is only a theory about the aftermath of a bang. In the scientific version of the Big Bang, the universe starts with everything already expanding, with no explanation of how that expansion started... So the Scientific version of the Big Bang theory is not really a theory of a bang, it's really a theory of the aftermath of a bang.”

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Key facts

Born

Alan Harvey Guth , ( 1947-02-27 ) February 27, 1947 (age 79) , New Brunswick, New Jersey , U.S.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( BS , MS , PhD )

Known for

Cosmic inflation , Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem , Inflaton

Spouse

Susan Tisch ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 ) ​

Children

2, including Larry Guth

Fields

Cosmology , theoretical physics , particle physics

Institutions

Princeton , Columbia , Cornell , Stanford Linear Accelerator , MIT

Doctoral advisor

Francis E. Low

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