Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose | |
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Penrose in 2011 | |
| Born | 8 August 1931 Colchester, Essex, England |
| Education |
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| Known for | List of contributions
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| Spouses | |
| Children | 4 |
| Father | Lionel Penrose |
| Relatives | Roland Penrose (uncle), Jonathan Penrose (brother), Oliver Penrose (brother), Shirley Hodgson (sister), Antony Penrose (cousin) |
| Awards | List of awards
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical physics, tessellations |
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| Thesis | Tensor Methods in Algebraic Geometry (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | John A. Todd |
| Other academic advisors | W. V. D. Hodge |
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Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931)[1] is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics.[2] He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London.[3][4][5]
Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems,[6] and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".[7][8][9][a] He won the Royal Society Science Books Prize for The Emperor's New Mind (1989), which outlines his views on physics and consciousness. He followed it with The Road to Reality (2004), billed as "A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe".
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- ^ Ferguson, Kitty (1991). Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything. Franklin Watts. ISBN 0-553-29895-X.
- ^ Misner, Charles; Thorne, Kip S. & Wheeler, John Archibald (1973). Gravitation. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. ISBN 978-0-7167-0344-0. (See Box 34.2.)
- ^ Siegel, Matthew (8 January 2008). "Wolf Foundation Honors Hawking and Penrose for Work in Relativity". Physics Today. 42 (1): 97–98. doi:10.1063/1.2810893. ISSN 0031-9228. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Roger Penrose", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020". NobelPrize.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ Overbye, Dennis; Taylor, Derrick Bryson (6 October 2020). "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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