University College, London King's College, Cambridge
Known for
Bose–Einstein condensation in liquid helium direction of time kinetics of phase transitions foundations of statistical mechanics
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Imperial College, London Open University Heriot-Watt University
Doctoral advisor
H N V Temperley
Website
www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~oliver/
Notes
He is the brother of Roger Penrose, Jonathan Penrose, and Shirley Hodgson, and son of Lionel Penrose, and grandson of J. Doyle Penrose and John Beresford Leathes. He is the nephew of Roland Penrose and cousin of Antony Penrose.
Oliver PenroseFRS FRSE (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist.[1]
He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose and brother of the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose, and geneticist Shirley Hodgson.[2][3] He was associated with the Open University for seventeen years and was a Professor of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh from 1986 until his retirement in 1994. He has the title of Professor Emeritus at Heriot-Watt, and remains active in research there. His topics of interest include statistical mechanics,[4] phase transitions in metals and the physical chemistry of surfactants. His concept of off-diagonal long-range order is important to the present understanding of superfluids and superconductors. Other more abstract topics in which he has worked include understanding the physical basis for the direction of time and interpretations of quantum mechanics.[5][6]
^"Notes", The rainbow and the worm: the physics of organisms by Mae-Wan Ho, World Scientific, 1998, Pg. 77
^Image processing III: mathematical methods, algorithms and applications by Jonathan M. Blackledge and Martin J. Turner, Horwood Publishing, 2001, Pg. 2
^"The Mandelbrot Set", Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science by E. Brian Davies, Oxford University Press, 2010, Pg. 119, ISBN 0191591564
^"Papers dedicated to Oliver Penrose on the occasion of his 65th birthday", Volume 77, Issues 1–2 of Journal of Statistical Physics
^"Quantum Mechanics and Real Events", Quantum chaos—quantum measurement by Predrag Cvitanović, Ian Percival, Andreas Wirzba and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division, Springer, 1992, Pg. 257
^"The physical review—the first hundred years:" a selection of seminal papers and commentaries, Volume 1 by H. Henry Stroke, Springer, 1995
OliverPenrose FRS FRSE (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist. He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose and brother of the mathematical...
Sir Roland Penrose, whose son with American photographer Lee Miller is Antony Penrose. Penrose is the brother of physicist OliverPenrose, of geneticist...
played by the entire Penrose family. His father was a composer of endgame studies and a strong player, as was his older brother Oliver. By the age of seventeen...
children include physicist OliverPenrose, mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose, chess grandmaster Jonathan Penrose, and geneticist Shirley Hodgson...
brother was Sir Roland Penrose, both British artists. He married Margaret Leathes in 1928 and they had four children: OliverPenrose, born 1929, physicist;...
Lionel Penrose and his wife Margaret Leathes and the granddaughter of the physiologist John Beresford Leathes. She has three older brothers, Oliver, Sir...
The original problem was first solved in 1958 by Roger Penrose using ellipses to form the Penrose unilluminable room. He showed that there exists a room...
also sometimes referred to as the Penrose–Terrell effect, the Terrell–Penrose effect or the Lampa–Terrell–Penrose effect, but not the Lampa effect. By...
Tartakower (various games) Jonathan Penrose vs Savielly Tartakower Southsea, England (1950) Eugene Znosko-Borovsky vs OliverPenrose BCF-Premier (1948) Played Eugene...
John David Penrose (born 22 June 1964) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare since 2005. A member of the...
The diagrammatic notation can thus greatly simplify calculations. Roger Penrose described spin networks in 1971. Spin networks have since been applied...
Leathes married Lionel Penrose MD, FRS, Professor of Genetics at University College, London in 1928, and was the mother of OliverPenrose, the theoretical physicist;...
include Joel Lebowitz and Detlef Dürr. In a 1981 paper, Goldstein and OliverPenrose described a new method of defining nonequilibrium entropy in statistcal...
Rising and featured in the BBC Three horror series Red Rose as Alyssa Penrose, who dies in the first episode. In 2023, Cara starred in the horror film...
Qadir, Faheem Hussain, Hamid Saleem, M. Jamil Aslam. Roger Penrose Riazuddin OliverPenrose Partial Differential Equation University of Islamabad National...
William Penn that stayed in the Penrose family for 150 years. He attended Harvard College, where he befriended Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. He graduated...
Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who served as a Republican member of...
Professor George Deacon (Chemistry), Professor Roger Penrose (Mathematical Physics), OliverPenrose (Mathematics), Alice Hanson Cook (Cornell University)...
The Penrose Medal was created in 1925 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America. Originally created as the...
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muscle. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity...
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