John D. Barrow

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John David Barrow (born November 29, 1952 in London , † September 26, 2020 in Cambridge ) was a British theoretical physicist and professor of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University .

Live and act

Barrow studied 1971-1974 mathematics at the University of Durham and then astrophysics at the University of Oxford , where he in 1977 Dennis Sciama to work non-uniform Cosmological Models doctorate was. From 1977 to 1980 he was a Research Lecturer at Christ Church College and in the Faculty of Astrophysics at Oxford. He was then a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1981 he went to the University of Sussex , where he stayed until he moved to Cambridge in 1999. He was also the head of the Millennium Mathematics Project . From 2003 to 2015 he held various positions at Gresham College active in London.

In addition to more than 300 scientific publications, he was also the author of numerous popular science books, the first of which, The Left Hand of Creation , appeared in 1983. In 1988, together with Frank Tipler, he founded a version of the anthropic principle in the controversial book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle .

In 2006 Barrow received the Templeton Prize and in 2008 the Michael Faraday Prize of the Royal Society . For 2015 he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics (IOP), for 2016 the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2009 he was a member of the Academia Europaea . On February 5, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences .

His play Infinities , which premiered in Milan in 2002, won the Italian theater award.

Publications

  • with Frank Tipler : The Anthropic Cosmological Principle , Oxford 1986 ISBN 0-19-282147-4
  • The left hand of creation . Basic Books, New York, 1983 (Ger. The Left Hand of Creation . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 3-8274-0526-2 )
  • The world within the world . Oxford University Press, London, 1988 (Ger. The nature of nature: Knowledge at the borders of space and time , Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 3-499-19608-5 )
  • Theories of everything . Oxford University Press, 1991 (German theories for everything: the search for the world formula . Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1994 ISBN 3-499-19534-8 )
  • Pi in the sky . Oxford University Press, London, 1992 (from the English by Anita Ehlers: A heaven full of numbers On the trail of mathematical truth . Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1999, ISBN 3-499-19742-1 )
  • Perché il mondo è matematico? , Rome, 1992 (German: Why the world is mathematical . German, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-423-30570-3 )
  • The origin of the universe : Basic Books, New York, 1993 (Ger. The origin of the universe: how space, time and matter came about . Goldmann, Munich, 2002, ISBN 3-442-15061-2 )
  • The artful universe . Oxford University Press, London, 1995 (Ger. The cosmic cut: the natural laws of the aesthetic . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg, 1997, ISBN 3-8274-0173-9 )
  • Impossibility . Oxford University Press, London, 1998 (Ger. The Discovery of the Impossible. Research at the Frontiers of Knowledge , Spectrum, Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 3-8274-1110-6 )
  • The constants of nature . Jonathan Cape, London, 2002 (Ger. The 1x1 of the universe. New knowledge about the natural constants . Campus, 2004, ISBN 3-593-37330-0 Rowohlt, 2006, ISBN 3-499-62060-X )
  • The infinite book (German: once infinity and back . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-37774-2 , Rowohlt 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-62298-4 )
  • The Book of Universes
    • German from Carl Freytag: The book of universes . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39337-7 .

Web links

sources

  1. ↑ Morto John Barrow, cosmologo e divulgatore: aveva 67 anni Il Messaggero, accessed on September 27, 2020
  2. ^ John D. Barrow - 2006 Press Release. Templeton Prize, accessed September 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ John D. Barrow on templetonprize.org ( Memento of February 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Fellows Directory: John Barrow. Royal Society, accessed October 26, 2017 .
  5. ^ Membership directory: John D. Barrow. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 26, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
  6. ^ Nomina di Membro Ordinario della Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , February 5, 2020, accessed February 5, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Barrow, John D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrow, John David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2020
Place of death Cambridge