Top 20 Living Physicists

Nationality: American
Claim to Fame: Cosmic inflation
Institutions: Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford Linear Accelerator, MIT
Significant Awards:
MIT School of Science Prize for Undergraduate Teaching, The Franklin Medal for Physics of the Franklin Institute, Isaac Newton Medal of Institute of Physics (2009), Dirac Prize of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation (2004), Fun