John D, Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, DAMTP, and Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, has been awarded the 2011 Merck-Serono Prize for Science and Literature and the 2011 Christopher Zeeman Medal by the London Mathematical Society (LMS) and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA).

The Christopher Zeeman Medal is a triennial award of the IMA and LMS to recognise and reward the contributions of mathematicians involved in promoting mathematics to the public.

The Merck-Serono Prize is an Italian book prize for non-fiction and is for the Italian edition of his cosmic imagery book (‘Le Immagini della Scienza’).


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