When was Roger Penrose born?

Roger Penrose was born on 8 August 1931 in Colchester.

What positions has Roger Penrose held?

Positions held by Roger Penrose include: Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (1973–1999).

Where did Roger Penrose study?

Roger Penrose was educated at University College London, University of Cambridge, University College School.

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Roger Penrose

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

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Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. 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. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. Penrose's eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged Dan Shechtman's discovery of quasicrystals.

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Born: 8 August 1931 wd
Place of birth: Colchester wd
Citizenship: United Kingdom wd
Occupation: mathematician, physicist, philosopher, university teacher, astronomer, astrophysicist wd
Education: University College London, University of Cambridge, University College School wd
Spouse: Vanessa Thomas, Joan Isabel Wedge wd
Social media: X (Twitter) wd

Positions held wd

Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (1973–1999)

Awards wd

Fellow of the Royal Society (1972)
Copley Medal (2008)
Royal Medal (1985)
Adams Prize (1966)
Eddington Medal (1975)
IOP Dirac Medal (1989)
Albert Einstein Medal (1990)
Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1991)
Helmholtz Medal (1998)
Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2000)
Marcel Grossmann Award (2000)
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2000)
Order of Merit (2000)
De Morgan Medal (2004)
Amaldi Medal (2004)

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When was Roger Penrose born?: Roger Penrose was born on 8 August 1931 in Colchester.
What positions has Roger Penrose held?: Positions held by Roger Penrose include: Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (1973–1999).
Where did Roger Penrose study?: Roger Penrose was educated at University College London, University of Cambridge, University College School.

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