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My Take
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.
Overview
John David Barrow (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. Barrow was also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Dragon
- Origin
- London, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- physicist / writer / university teacher / mathematician / theoretical physicist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- 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
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.