Biography
Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. 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.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, 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 is regarded as one of the greatest living physicists, mathematicians and scientists, and is particularly noted for the breadth and depth of his work in both natural and formal sciences.
Filmography
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Movies 9
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TV Shows 1
Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe (2008)
A Brief History of Time (1991)
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GenderMale
Birthday1931-08-08 (93 years old)
Religionagnosticism
RelationshipsJoan Isabel Wedge (1959-01-01 - 1981-01-01)
SpouseVanessa Thomas
FatherLionel Penrose
MotherMargaret Leathes
SiblingsOliver Penrose, Jonathan Penrose, Shirley Hodgson
RelativesRoland Penrose
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsForder Lectureship, Dalton Medal, honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain, Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Fellow of the Royal Society, Amaldi Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw, Clarivate Citation Laureates, Fonseca Prize, Marcel Grossmann Award, Pomeranchuk Prize, Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Helmholtz Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Eddington Medal, Wolf Prize in Physics, Knight Bachelor, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Naylor Prize and Lectureship, Silver Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, IOP Dirac Medal, Royal medal, De Morgan Medal, Adams Prize, Order of Merit, Nobel Prize in Physics, Copley Medal, Albert Einstein Medal, Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, Royal Society Science Books Prize
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