John D Barrow

Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge, and Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London (2008-2011). Barrow was Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 2003-7 and is the only person other than Laurence Rooke, in 1657, to hold Gresham chairs in two different subjects. He graduated in mathematics from Durham University and received his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Oxford, supervised by Dennis Sciama.