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John D. Barrow was a professor of mathematical sciences, director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded the 2006 Templeton Prize for "Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities" for his "writings about the relationship between life and the universe, and the nature of human understanding [which] have created new perspectives on questions of ultimate concern to science and religion."
He was a member of a United Reformed Church, which he described as teaching "a traditional deistic picture of the universe."John D. Barrow was a professor of mathematical sciences, director of the Millennium Mathematics Project at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. "He was a member of a United Reformed Church, which he described as teaching "a traditional deistic picture of the universe."
Barrow was a Junior Research Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1977 to 1981. 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).
In 1981 he joined the University of Sussex and rose to become Professor and Director of the Astronomy Centre. In 1999, he became a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a fellow at Clare Hall at Cambridge University. From 2003 to 2007, he was a Gresham Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, London. He was appointed Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2008 to 2011; only one person has previously held two different Gresham chairs.
