John Barrow
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British physicist and mathematician (1952-2020)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1764
- Died
- 1848
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club
- A description of Pitcairn's island and its inhabitants
- The life of Richard, Earl Howe, Admiral of the Fleet and General of Marines
- A voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793
- Atlas du Voyage en Chine, à la suite de l'ambassade de Lord Macartney par John Barrow
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 69
- Total plays
- 253
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,187x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,528x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,305x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,190x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,820x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-11-29 ) 29 November 1952, London , England
- Died
- 26 September 2020 (2020-09-26) (aged 67)
- Alma mater
- Van Mildert College, Durham (BSc), Magdalen College, Oxford (DPhil)
- Awards
- Italgas Prize (2003), Templeton Prize (2006), Michael Faraday Prize (2008), Kelvin Prize (2009), Christopher Zeeman Medal (2011) , IOP Dirac Medal (2015), Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016), Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize (2019)
- Fields
- Physics , Astronomy , Mathematics , Popular science
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge , Gresham College , University of California, Berkeley , University of Oxford , University of Sussex
- Thesis
- Non-Uniform Cosmological Models (1977)
- Doctoral advisor
- Dennis William Sciama
- Doctoral students
- Peter Coles , David Wands
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- John Barrow - fixed colors.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1952-11-29
- Erdős number
- 2
- date of death
- 2020-09-26
- name in native language
- John David Barrow
- Commons category
- John David Barrow
- described at URL
- www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/j.d.barrow
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John David Barrow FRS (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.
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1952 births2020 deaths20th-century British physicists21st-century British physicistsAcademics of Gresham CollegeAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordAlumni of Van Mildert College, DurhamBritish cosmologistsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish theoretical physicistsCambridge mathematiciansDeaths from colorectal cancer in EnglandEnglish male non-fiction writersEnglish PresbyteriansEnglish science writersFellows of Clare Hall, CambridgeMembers of the International Society for Science and ReligionRecipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical SocietyTempleton Prize laureatesUniversity of California, Berkeley Miller Fellows