Roger Penrose
Sir Roger PenroseKtOMFRS(born 8 August 1931) is anEnglishmathematicalphysicist.He isEmeritusRouse BallProfessor of Mathematicsat theUniversity of Oxfordand emeritus fellow ofWadham College.
Penrose won theNobel Prize in Physics,jointly, in 2020.[1]Previously he had won the 1988Wolf PrizeinPhysics,which he shared withStephen Hawkingfor thePenrose–Hawking singularity theorems.[2]
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He is renowned for his work inastrophysicswithStephen Hawking,in particular his contributions togeneral relativityandcosmology.He is also arecreational mathematicianandphilosopher.
Roger Penrose is the brother of mathematicianOliver Penroseandchess grandmasterJonathan Penrose.His sister, nowShirley Hodgson,is a notablegeneticist.He was born inColchester,Essex,England.He was awarded theCopley Medalin 2008.
In 2020, he shared theNobel Prize in PhysicswithReinhard GenzelandAndrea M. Ghez.[3]
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- Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity.1972,ISBN0-89871-005-7
- Spinors and Space-Time, volume 1: Two-spinor calculus and relativistic fields.(with Wolfgang Rindler) 1987.ISBN0-521-33707-0
- Spinors and Space-Time, volume 2: Spinor and twistor methods in space-time geometry.(with Wolfgang Rindler) 1988.ISBN0-521-34786-6
- The Emperor's New Mind: concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics.1989.ISBN0-14-014534-6;it received theRhone-Poulenc science book prizein 1990.
- Shadows of the Mind: a search for the missing science of consciousness.1994.ISBN0-19-853978-9
- The nature of space and time(withStephen Hawking,1996,ISBN0-691-03791-4hardbackISBN0-691-05084-8(paperback)
- The large, the small, and the human mind(with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Stephen Hawking) 1997.ISBN0-521-56330-5(hardback),ISBN0-521-65538-2(paperback), Canto edition:ISBN0-521-78572-3)
- White Mars or, the mind set freewithBrian W. Aldiss.1999.ISBN978-0-316-85243-2(hardback)
- The Road to Reality: a complete guide to the laws of the Universe.2004.ISBN0-224-04447-8(hardcover),ISBN0-09-944068-7(paperback)
- Cycles of Time: an extraordinary new view of the Universe.2010. Bodley Head.ISBN978-0-224-08036-1
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- ↑"Roger Penrose | Biography, Books, Awards, & Facts".Archivedfrom the original on 7 March 2021.Retrieved7 March2021.
- ↑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.ISSN0031-9228.Archivedfrom the original on 7 December 2021.Retrieved7 October2020.
- ↑"Alert: Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery; and to Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez".The San Francisco Chronicle. 6 October 2020. Archived fromthe originalon 9 October 2020.Retrieved6 October2020.
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