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Roger Penrose. Sir Roger Penrose, OM, 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 ...
In 1964, Roger Penrose proposed critical mathematical tools to describe black holes. He showed that Einstein’s general theory of relativity means the formation of black holes must be seen as a natural process in the development of the universe.
Oct 6, 2020 · If you ever struggled with maths at school, you were in good company. Sir Roger Penrose, who on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for Physics, would also scratch his head in class.
Nov 14, 2022 · Roger Penrose: "Consciousness must be beyond computable physics". The mathematician shares his latest theories on quantum consciousness, the structure of the universe and how to communicate...
Roger Penrose (born August 8, 1931, Colchester, Essex, England) is a British mathematician and relativist who in the 1960s calculated many of the basic features of black holes. For his work on black holes, he was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics.
In this phone interview, recorded just after the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, Roger Penrose recounts the story of how a particular crossroads held the key to his seminal 1965 paper on the theoretical basis of black holes.
Nobelprize.org met physicist Roger Penrose on 4 March 2021. We spoke to him about growing up, how his passion for maths developed and why he finds it so surreal to be a Nobel Laureate. Could you tell us a bit about when you were a child?
