Permanent historical factsheet

Inflation

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1980Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1980

Alan Harvey Guth1980

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · Science / Physics

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

Names involved

Alan Harvey Guth

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.