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Roger Penrose

Professor Sir Roger Penrose in 2012

Sir Roger Penrose Kt OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Wadham College.

Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly, in 2020.[1] Previously he had won the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems.[2] He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2019.[3]

  1. "Roger Penrose | Biography, Books, Awards, & Facts". Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  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.
  3. "Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 21 October 2020.

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