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John D Barrow
John D. Barrow was born in London in 1952 and attended Ealing Grammar School. He graduated in Mathematics from Durham University in 1974, received his doctorate in Astrophysics from Oxford University in 1977 (supervised by Dennis Sciama), and held positions at the Universities of Oxford and California at Berkeley before taking up a position at the Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex in 1981. He was professor of astronomy and Director of the Astronomy Centre at the University of Sussex until 1999. He is the author of 325 scientific articles in cosmology and astrophysics, and is a recipient of the Locker Prize for Astronomy and the 1999 Kelvin Medal of the Royal Glasgow Philosophical Society. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Hertfordshire in 1999. He recently held a Senior 5-year Research Fellowship from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK.
In July 1999 he took up a new appointment as Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, a new
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John D. Barrow
British scientist
For other people named John Barrow, see John Barrow (disambiguation).
John David BarrowFRS[2] (29 November 1952 – 26 September 2020) was an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He served as Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2008 to 2011.[3] Barrow was also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright.[4]
Education
Barrow attended Barham Primary School in Wembley until 1964 and Ealing Grammar School for Boys from 1964 to 1971 and obtained his first degree in mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974.[5] In 1977, he completed his doctorate in astrophysics at Magdalen College, Oxford, supervised by Dennis William Sciama.[1]
Career and research
Barrow was a Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1977 to 1981. He completed two postdoctoral years as a Miller Research Fellow in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Commonwealth Lindemann Fellow (1
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The Faculty is deeply saddened by the death of John D Barrow FRS, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, on 26th September 2020. He was a renowned cosmologist and mathematical physicist who also had a profound influence on the public understanding of science through his outreach lectures, his many popular science books, and his leadership of the Millennium Mathematics Project.
John Barrow was Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, and a Fellow of Clare Hall. Amongst his colleagues in the Faculty of Mathematics and Clare Hall, he was held in high regard by the many who benefitted from his wisdom and insight, and we shall feel the loss of his warm and engaging presence, which is remembered with great affection.
John Barrow grew up in Wembley and attended Ealing Grammar School in a part of London that he described as “not conducive to observational astronomy”. After obtaining a degree in mathematics and physics from Durham University in 1974, he completed his doctorate in astrophysics at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Den
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