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Alan Harvey Guth Biography and Timeline

Follow Alan Harvey Guth through 4 dated historical records for United States of America.

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Alan Harvey Guth, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

4Distinct records

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1979–1981Years on this page

1979

Inflation

Physicist · Cornell University · Science / Astronomy

Guth develops the idea of cosmic inflation to solve puzzles in Big Bang cosmology

1980

Inflation

Physicist · Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · Science / Astronomy

Guth presents inflation as an early exponential expansion of the universe

1980

Inflation

Physicist · Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · Science / Physics

Guth proposes inflation, using relativistic field theory to address early universe problems

1981

Inflation

Physicist · Physical Review D · Science / Astronomy

Guth publishes the inflationary universe model as an extension of Big Bang theory

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