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John D. Barrow

1952 - 2020

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John D. Barrow has received more than 258,667 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). John D. Barrow is the 611th most popular physicist (down from 587th in 2019), the 3,165th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,131st in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John D. Barrow ranks 611 out of 851. Before him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Robert Mills, Marcel Brillouin, Burkhard Heim, Bert Bolin, and James Hansen. After him are Harry Daghlian, Harold Brown, Gustav Mie, Aleksandr Stoletov, Harold Agnew, and Mario Livio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, John D. Barrow ranks 322. Before him are Jenő Jandó, Cerrone, Patrick Gaillard, Geoff Downes, Mustapha Dahleb, and Herschel Savage. After him are Yoshiki Tanaka, Duncan Regehr, Shelley McNamara, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Monique van de Ven, and Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot. Among people deceased in 2020, John D. Barrow ranks 362. Before him are Hau Pei-tsun, Maria Itkina, Martin Birch, Ahmed Laraki, Yuri Bondarev, and Wolfgang Uhlmann. After him are Gergely Kulcsár, Jerry Sloan, Gudrun Pausewang, Jan Myrdal, Giorgi Shengelaia, and Inna Makarova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John D. Barrow ranks 3,165 out of 8,785. Before him are Una Stubbs (1937), James Milner (1986), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), Michael Ball (1962), Nathaniel Bliss (1700), and Wilko Johnson (1947). After him are John Steiner (1941), Clive Bell (1881), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Jack Goody (1919), John Colet (1467), and Charles Lee (1731).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John D. Barrow ranks 64. Before him are C. P. Snow (1905), Paul Davies (1946), Joseph Larmor (1857), James David Forbes (1809), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), and John Robison (1739). After him are John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Frederick Guthrie (1833), Michael Berry (1941), and William Astbury (1898).

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