Alan Guth
Alan Guth is a professor of physics at MIT, and world-renowned for his discovery of inflationary cosmology, the dominant cosmological paradigm for over two decades. His current research focuses on developing mathematical tools for quantitatively analyzing inflation’s suggestion that there are an infinite number of universes. He won the 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the invention of inflationary cosmology, and the 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for “for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation.”