John Barrow

John D. Barrow is the kind of mind I find irresistible: a London-born cosmologist and mathematician who could both push the frontier of theoretical physics and translate the cosmos for the rest of us. The roll call of honours, the Templeton Prize, the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal, signals a thinker equally at home in equations and in the philosophical questions science can't quite escape. What moves me most is his gift for making the universe's sheer strangeness feel intimate on the page. His death in 2020 was a real loss, but anyone whose night sky changed after reading him owes him a quiet debt. I do.

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Name (English)

John Barrow

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・D・バロウ

Reading

じょん・D・ばろう

Born

November 29, 1952 – September 26, 2020

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

physicist / writer / university teacher / mathematician / theoretical physicist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

University

Magdalen College

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Templeton Prize
• 2016 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 2015 IOP Dirac Medal
• 2009 Kelvin Prize
• 2008 Michael Faraday Prize
• 2011 Christopher Zeeman Medal
• Honorary doctor of the University of Szczecin
• Fellow of the Royal Society

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20D.%20Barrow
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BBD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q471540

Tags

• physicist
• writer
• university teacher

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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