Roger Penrose
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2020for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
- Citizenship
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United Kingdom - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/8/1931
- place of birth
- Colchester
- Age
- 95 years
- educated at
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- University College London
- end time: 1/1/1955
- University of Cambridge
- end time: 1/1/1958
- start time: 1/1/1955
- University College School
- start time: 1/1/1945
- University College London
- employer
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- Birkbeck, University of London
- end time: 1/1/1973
- start time: 1/1/1964
- University of Oxford
- start time: 1/1/1973
- end time: 1/1/1998
- Gresham College
- start time: 1/1/1998
- Leiden University
- end time: 1/1/2011
- start time: 1/1/2011
- Leiden University
- start time: 1/1/2011
- Birkbeck, University of London
- position held
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- Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
- start time: 1/1/1973
- end time: 1/1/1999
- Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/1/1998
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/17/2003
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 1/1/2019
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1/1/2011
- Humanists UK
- Royal Society
- International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Oxford University Scientific Society
- National Academy of Sciences
- notable work
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- Shadows of the Mind
- Diósi–Penrose model
- The Emperor's New Mind
- Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
- Cycles of Time
- The Nature of Space and Time
- The Road to Reality
- twistor theory
- Newman–Penrose formalism
- Terrell rotation
- Penrose tiling
- Penrose process
- Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
- Penrose interpretation
- Penrose transform
- Riemannian Penrose inequality
- Penrose diagram
- Moore–Penrose inverse
- Penrose triangle
- Penrose–Lucas argument
- Penrose stairs
- Andromeda paradox
- field of work
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- mathematics
- physics
- mathematical physics
- occupation
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- mathematician
- astrophysicist
- physicist
- philosopher
- astronomer
- university teacher
- doctoral student
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- George A. J. Sparling
- Kenneth Paul Tod
- Ross Moore
- Adam Helfer
- Matthew L. Ginsberg
- Peter R. Law
- Alejandro Miguel Pilato
- Arthur Gary Ryman
- Klaus G. Pulverer
- John Moussouris
- B. P. Jeffryes
- Stephen A. Huggett
- Michael C. Sheppard
- Toby N. Bailey
- Simon Williams
- A. J. Goddard
- John M. McNamara
- P. E. Jones
- Rob Baston
- Michael A. Singer
- Robert J Low
- William Shaw
- Richard S. Ward
- Tristan Needham
- Andrew Hodges
- Richard Jozsa
- Asghar Qadir
- Claude LeBrun
- Lane P. Hughston
- Tim Poston
- George Burnett-Stuart
- Alexander S. Popovic
- Thomas R. Hurd