He completed two postdoctoral years as a Miller Research Fellow in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, as a Commonwealth Lindemann Fellow (1977–8) and Miller Fellow (1980–1). Career and research īarrow was a Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1977 to 1981. In 1977, he completed his doctorate in astrophysics at Magdalen College, Oxford, supervised by Dennis William Sciama. Education īarrow attended Barham Primary School in Wembley until 1964 and Ealing Grammar School for Boys from 1964 to 1971 and obtained his first degree in mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. Barrow was also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. He served as Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2008 to 2011. John David Barrow FRS (29 November 1952 – 26 September 2020) was an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. Giuseppe Occhialini Medal and Prize (2019) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2016), Zeeman Medal, London Mathematical Society and IMA (2011)
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