John D. Barrow

John Barrow
Born	John David Barrow (1952-11-29) 29 November 1952 (age 64) London, England, UK
Fields	Physicist astronomer and mathematician writer of popular science
Institutions	University of Cambridge Gresham College University of California, Berkeley University of Oxford University of Sussex
Alma mater	University of Durham University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Dennis William Sciama
Doctoral students	Peter Coles David Wands Timothy Clifton David Mota Manolis Plionis Sigbjorn Hervik Spiros Cotsakis Adrian Burd Paul Saich Yves Gaspar Kerstin Kunze Baojiu Li Jonathan Middleton Sean Lip Alexander Graham Nigel Ling Mark Madsen Marcio Maia Jose Mimoso Paul Parsons Douglas Shaw Adam Solomon Christos Tsagas David Sonoda Jaime Stein-Schabes Kei Yamamoto Jonathan Yearsley Raf Guedens
Notable awards	Premi Ubu (2002) Italgas Prize (2003) Templeton Prize (2006) Michael Faraday Prize (2008) Kelvin Prize (2009) Gresham Prize (2009) Premio Oriente (2010) Zeeman Medal (2011) Merck-Serono Prize (2011) Premio Antico Pignolo (2012) Dirac Medal (2015) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016)

Physicist
astronomer and mathematician

John David Barrow FRS (born 29 November 1952) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright.

Barrow attended Barham Primary School in Wembley until 1964 and Ealing Grammar School for Boys from 1964–71 and obtained his first degree in mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. In 1977, he completed his doctorate in astrophysics at Magdalen College, Oxford, under Dennis William Sciama. He was a Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1977–81. He did two postdoctoral years as a Miller Research Fellow in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Commonwealth Lindemann Fellow (1977–8) and Miller Fellow (1980–1).

In 1981 he joined the University of Sussex and rose to the rank of Professor and Director of the Astronomy Centre. In 1999, he became Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a fellow in Clare Hall at Cambridge University. He is Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project. From 2003–2007 he was Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London, and he has been appointed as Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2008–2011; only one person has previously held two different Gresham chairs. In 2008, the Royal Society awarded him the Faraday Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 2003 and elected Fellow of the Academia Europaea in 2009. he has received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Hertfordshire, Sussex, Durham, S. Wales and Szczecin, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nanjing. He was a Centenary Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 1989.

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