John W. Barrett is professor of

mathematical physics Mathematical physics is the development of mathematics, mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the de ...

at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

. He is a quantum gravity researcher who is known for the

Barrett–Crane model The Barrett–Crane model is a model in quantum gravity, first published in 1998, which was defined using the Plebanski action. The B field in the action is supposed to be a so(3, 1)-valued 2-form, i.e. taking values in the Lie algebra of a spec ...

of quantum gravity.

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