John D. Barrow

John David Barrow ( born November 29, 1952 in London) is a theoretical physicist and professor of applied mathematics and theoretical physics at Cambridge University.

Life and work

Barrow studied mathematics from 1971 to 1974 at the University of Durham and then astrophysics at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate under Dennis Sciama 1977. 1977 to 1980 he was a Research Lecturer at Christ Church College and in the Department of Astrophysics at Oxford. After that he was Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1981 he went to the University of Sussex, where he remained until he moved to Cambridge in 1999. He is also Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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

2006 Barrow received the Templeton Prize.

His play Infinities, which had premiere in Milan in 2002, won the Italian theater price.

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 ( dt The left hand of creation. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 3-8274-0526-2 )
  • The world within the world. Oxford University Press, London, 1988 (Eng. The Nature of Nature: Knowledge of the limits of space and Time, Bantam, Reinbek, 1995, ISBN 3-499-19608-5 )
  • Theories of everything. Oxford University Press, 1991 (Eng. theories for everything: the search for the Ultimate Theory Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1994 ISBN 3-499-19534-8. )
  • Pi in the sky. Oxford University Press, London, 1992 ( dt A sky full of numbers. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1999, ISBN 3-499-19742-1 )
  • Perché il mondo è Matematico? , Rome, 1992 (Eng. Why the world is mathematical. Dtv, Munich, 1996, ISBN 3-423-30570-3 )
  • The origin of the universe: Basic Books, New York, 1993 (Eng. The origin of the universe: how space, time and matter arose Goldmann, Munich, 2002, ISBN 3-442-15061-2. )
  • The artful universe. Oxford University Press, London, 1995 (Eng. The cosmic Editing: the natural laws of Ästhetischen.Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1997, ISBN 3-8274-0173-9 )
  • Impossibility. Oxford University Press, London, 1998 (Eng. The discovery of the impossible. Research at the frontiers of knowledge, range, Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 3-8274-1110-6 )
  • The constants of nature. Jonathan Cape, London, 2002 (Eng. The 1x1 of the universe. New insights into the fundamental constants. Campus, 2004, ISBN 3-593-37330-0 Rowohlt, 2006, ISBN 3- 499-62060 -X)
  • The infinite book (Eng. 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 by Carl Freytag: The Book of Universes. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-593-39337-7.

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