Barrows, Frank

Barrow, John and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (New York Oxford University Press, 1986). 

John Barrow and Frank Tipler, in the Anthropic Cosmological Principle, are fascinated by the number of seemingly coincidental conditions, events, and physical constants that guide our Universe. For example, they find the number of coincidences involving 1039 remarkable. 

Quoted in John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler The Anthropic Cosmological Principle The Anthropic Principle and Biochemistry (p. 541)... 

Barrow, John D. Theories of Everything. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1991. Barrow, John D. and Tipler, Frank J. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1986. 

It was possible in 1921 for a sole author, Frank E. Barrows (3), to write a series of articles having practically the scope of the present symposium for that time. The trend toward specialization in chemical fields now evidently extends into the area of the literature. 

In 1913, long after Charles Darwin had argued for the htness of organisms for their environment, the Harvard chemist Lawrence J. Henderson pointed out that the organisms would not exist at all except for the htness of the environment itself. Fitness there must be, in environment as well as in organism, he declared near the outset of his classic work. The Fitness of the Environment (1913, p. 6). While most of Henderson s contemporaries ignored the philosophical implications of this work, as John Barrow and Frank Tipler have noted, it still comprises the foundahon of the Anthropic Principle as applied to biochemical systems (1986, p. 143). 

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