John D. Barrow

John D. Barrow, FRS, is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University and the Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College in London. Barrow is a cosmologist whose writings about the relationship between life and the universe and the nature of human understanding, have challenged scientists and theologians to cross the boundaries of their disciplines reconsider how time, space, and matter began, and the behavior of the universe. He is the author of more than 430 scientific articles on cosmology and astrophysics. Barrow first caught wide attention with his book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, co-authored with Frank J. Tipler, which provided one of the most thorough studies of the “anthropic principle”. Barrow’s recent research focuses on the ways in which astronomy can test the constancy of the so-called “Constants of Nature.” He has received many awards, including the Templeton Prize in 2006 for "Progress Towards Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities” and the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society in 2008.