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John Barrow
British physicist and mathematician (1952-2020)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 November 1952
- Died
- 26 September 2020
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Barrow
- Field of work
- theoretical physics, astrophysics, cosmology, mathematics, creative and professional writing, drama
- Occupation
- physicist, writer, university teacher, mathematician, theoretical physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, playwright, cosmologist, mathematics
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Templeton Prize, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, IOP Dirac Medal, Kelvin Prize, Michael Faraday Prize, Christopher Zeeman Medal, Honorary doctor of the University of Szczecin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Occhialini Prize
- cause of death
- colorectal cancer
- different from
- John Barrow
- doctoral advisor
- Dennis W. Sciama
- doctoral student
- Peter Coles, Charles Board, Timothy Clifton, Raf Maurice Elvire Guedens, Kerstin Elena Kunze, José Pedro Mimoso, Yves Francesco Gaspar, Sigbjørn Hervik, David F. Mota, Douglas J. Shaw, Jaime Stein Schabes, David Wands
- educated at
- Magdalen College, Van Mildert College, University of Oxford
- employer
- Gresham College, University of Sussex, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge
- Erdős number
- 2
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, Academia Europaea
- name in native language
- John David Barrow
- residence
- Cambridge
- work location
- England
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Why is the world mathematical?
- Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being
- The Constants of Nature
- The Book of Nothing
- Infinities
- The Left Hand of Creation: The Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universe
- The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
- 100: sto důležitých věcí o umění a matematice, které nevíte (a ani nevíte, že je nevíte)
- The Constants of Nature
- Pi in the Sky
- The Origin of the Universe
- New Theories of Everything
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