Lionel Penrose (father), Roland Penrose (uncle), Jonathan Penrose (brother), Oliver Penrose (brother), Shirley Hodgson (sister), Antony Penrose (cousin)
Awards
List of awards
Adams Prize (1966)
Heineman Prize (1971)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1972)
Eddington Medal (1975)
Royal Medal (1985)
Wolf Prize (1988)
Dirac Medal (IOP) (1989)
Albert Einstein Medal (1990)
Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1991)
Knight Bachelor (1994)
James Scott Prize Lectureship (1997–2000)
Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2000)
De Morgan Medal (2004)
Dalton Medal (2005)
Copley Medal (2008)
Fonseca Prize (2011)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematical physics, tessellations
Institutions
Cornell University
Bedford College, London
Princeton University
Rice University
Syracuse University
King's College, London
Birkbeck, University of London
Wadham College, Oxford
Polish Academy of Sciences
Thesis
Tensor Methods in Algebraic Geometry(1958)
Doctoral advisor
John A. Todd
Other academic advisors
W. V. D. Hodge
Doctoral students
Andrew Hodges
Lane Hughston
Richard Jozsa
Claude LeBrun
John McNamara
Tristan Needham
Tim Poston
Asghar Qadir
Richard S. Ward
Sir Roger PenroseOM FRS HonFInstP (born 8 August 1931)[1] is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics.[2] He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 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][10][a]
^ abAnon (2017). "Penrose, Sir Roger". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U30531. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"Roger Penrose | Biography, Books, Awards, & Facts". Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
^"Oxford Mathematician Roger Penrose jointly wins the Nobel Prize in Physics | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. 6 October 2020. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
^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
^Roger Penrose at IMDb
^"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 prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way's center". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
Sir RogerPenrose OM FRS HonFInstP (born 8 August 1931) is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate...
independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son RogerPenrose. A variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction...
In theoretical physics, a Penrose diagram (named after mathematical physicist RogerPenrose) is a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations...
Penrose tilings may have both reflection symmetry and fivefold rotational symmetry. Penrose tilings are named after mathematician and physicist Roger...
the 1950s by psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his son, prominent Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Sir RogerPenrose, who described it as "impossibility...
The Penrose interpretation is a speculation by RogerPenrose about the relationship between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Penrose proposes...
In theoretical physics, twistor theory was proposed by RogerPenrose in 1967 as a possible path to quantum gravity and has evolved into a widely studied...
The Penrose process (also called Penrose mechanism) is theorised by Sir RogerPenrose as a means whereby energy can be extracted from a rotating black...
children include physicist Oliver Penrose, mathematician and physicist Sir RogerPenrose, chess grandmaster Jonathan Penrose, and geneticist Shirley Hodgson...
first put forward in the early 1990s by Nobel laureate for physics, RogerPenrose, and anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff. The hypothesis combines approaches...
framework of general relativity and proposed by theoretical physicist RogerPenrose. In CCC, the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future...
Penrose and brother of the mathematical physicist RogerPenrose, chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose, and geneticist Shirley Hodgson. He was associated...
This behaviour was described independently by both RogerPenrose and James Edward Terrell. Penrose's article was submitted 29 July 1958 and published in...
cheek muscle. Hawking's scientific works included a collaboration with RogerPenrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity...
non-circular. Penrose stairs – created by Oscar Reutersvärd and later independently devised and popularised by Lionel Penrose and his mathematician son Roger Penrose...
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet. He was a major promoter and collector of...
Roland Penrose, both British artists. He married Margaret Leathes in 1928 and they had four children: Oliver Penrose, born 1929, physicist; Sir Roger Penrose...
handwritten) visual depiction of multilinear functions or tensors proposed by RogerPenrose in 1971. A diagram in the notation consists of several shapes linked...
The diagrammatic notation can thus greatly simplify calculations. RogerPenrose described spin networks in 1971. Spin networks have since been applied...
The original problem was first solved in 1958 by RogerPenrose using ellipses to form the Penrose unilluminable room. He showed that there exists a room...
scientist RogerPenrose: Moore–Penrose inverse, the most widely known generalization of the inverse matrix in particular linear algebra Penrose graphical...
near-instantaneous travel between them. However physicists such as RogerPenrose regard such ideas as unrealistic, more fiction than speculation. A theoretical...
Jonathan Penrose, OBE (7 October 1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence...
Global Information