Oliver Penrose
Oliver Penrose | |
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| Born | 6 June 1929 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University College, London King's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Bose–Einstein condensationinliquid helium direction of time kineticsofphase transitions foundations of statistical mechanics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Imperial College, London Open University Heriot-Watt University |
| Doctoral advisor | H N V Temperley |
| Website | www |
| Notes | |
He is the brother ofRoger Penrose,Jonathan Penrose,andShirley Hodgson,and son ofLionel Penrose,and grandson ofJ. Doyle PenroseandJohn Beresford Leathes.He is the nephew ofRoland Penroseand cousin ofAntony Penrose. | |
Oliver PenroseFRSFRSE(born 6 June 1929) is a Britishtheoretical physicist.[1]
He is the son of the scientistLionel Penroseand brother of the mathematicalphysicistRoger Penrose,chessGrandmasterJonathan Penrose,and geneticistShirley Hodgson.[2][3]He was associated with theOpen Universityfor seventeen years and was a Professor of Mathematics atHeriot-Watt UniversityinEdinburghfrom 1986 until his retirement in 1994. He has the title of ProfessorEmeritusat Heriot-Watt, and remains active in research there. His topics of interest includestatistical mechanics,[4]phase transitionsinmetalsand thephysical chemistryofsurfactants.His concept of off-diagonal long-range order is important to the present understanding ofsuperfluidsandsuperconductors.Other more abstract topics in which he has worked include understanding the physical basis for thedirection of timeandinterpretations of quantum mechanics.[5][6]
References[edit]
- ^"Notes",The rainbow and the worm: the physics of organismsbyMae-Wan Ho,World Scientific, 1998, Pg. 77
- ^Image processing III: mathematical methods, algorithms and applicationsby Jonathan M. Blackledge and Martin J. Turner, Horwood Publishing, 2001, Pg. 2
- ^"The Mandelbrot Set",Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of SciencebyE. Brian Davies,Oxford University Press, 2010, Pg. 119,ISBN0191591564
- ^"Papers dedicated to Oliver Penrose on the occasion of his 65th birthday",Volume 77, Issues 1–2 ofJournal of Statistical Physics
- ^"Quantum Mechanics and Real Events",Quantum chaos—quantum measurementbyPredrag Cvitanović,Ian Percival,Andreas Wirzba and theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization.Scientific Affairs Division, Springer, 1992, Pg. 257
- ^"The physical review—the first hundred years:"a selection of seminal papers and commentaries, Volume 1 by H. Henry Stroke, Springer, 1995
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