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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 240,942 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). John D. Barrow is the 587th most popular physicist (up from 600th in 2019), the 3,139th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,277th in 2019) and the 67th most popular British Physicist.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.01

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  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John D. Barrow ranks 587 out of 717. Before him are C. P. Snow, Gordon Gould, Isaak Khalatnikov, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Ted Fujita, and Bill Nye. After him are John Robison, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Giovanni Giorgi, Henry Augustus Rowland, and John Lennard-Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, John D. Barrow ranks 287. Before him are John Finn, Sushma Swaraj, Hugo Broos, Marek Belka, Kikki Danielsson, and Morgan Tsvangirai. After him are Anna Sui, Raisa Smetanina, Ahmed Nazif, Daisuke Gōri, Walter Isaacson, and Klaus Teuber. Among people deceased in 2020, John D. Barrow ranks 348. Before him are Òscar Ribas Reig, Edmund M. Clarke, Litokwa Tomeing, Genesis P-Orridge, Mady Mesplé, and Pat Patterson. After him are Jack Sherman, Goran Paskaljević, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Claire Bretécher, Michael Gwisdek, and Neda Arnerić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John D. Barrow ranks 3,139 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Avison (1709), Grey Owl (1888), Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), David Murray (1909), and Alexander McDonnell (1798). After him are Peter R. Hunt (1925), Bonnie Wright (1991), Stephen Gardiner (1497), Clare Hollingworth (1911), Robert Kerr (1755), and Everard Home (1756).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John D. Barrow ranks 67. Before him are Paul Davies (1946), Sergey Kapitsa (1928), James David Forbes (1809), William Edward Ayrton (1847), Francis Hauksbee (1660), and C. P. Snow (1905). After him are John Robison (1739), John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Polkinghorne (1930), and John Hopkinson (1849).

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