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Alan Guth was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1947. He attended high school in New Jersey, then went on to MIT. All three of his degrees are from MIT; his Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics. After completing his Ph.D. in 1972 he took a postdoctoral position at Princeton, where he spent three years teaching particle physics and extending his research on quarks. From there he went to Columbia for a couple of years, and then on to Cornell. Seven years after he had completed his Ph.D. he still did not have a permanent position. But with his discovery of inflation all that soon changed.
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© 1988 Barry Parker
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Parker, B. (1988). Inflation. In: Creation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3332-4_7
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