Roger Penrose
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2020for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
- Citizenship
United Kingdom- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 8/8/1931
- place of birth
- Colchester
- Age
- 95 years
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- occupation
- astronomer
- university teacher
- physicist
- mathematician
- philosopher
- astrophysicist
- field of work
- mathematical physics
- mathematics
- physics
- educated at
- University College London
- end time: 1955
- University of Cambridge
- start time: 1955
- end time: 1958
- University College School
- start time: 1945
- University College London
- employer
- Leiden University
- start time: 2011
- Leiden University
- start time: 2011
- end time: 2011
- University of Oxford
- start time: 1973
- end time: 1998
- Birkbeck, University of London
- start time: 1964
- end time: 1973
- Gresham College
- start time: 1998
- Leiden University
- position held
- Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
- start time: 1973
- end time: 1999
- Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1998
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 2019
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/17/2003
- International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 2011
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Humanists UK
- Oxford University Scientific Society
- doctoral student
- Adam Helfer
- Kenneth Paul Tod
- George A. J. Sparling
- George Burnett-Stuart
- Ross Moore
- Matthew L. Ginsberg
- Peter R. Law
- A. J. Goddard
- John M. McNamara
- Arthur Gary Ryman
- B. P. Jeffryes
- Alejandro Miguel Pilato
- Klaus G. Pulverer
- Thomas R. Hurd
- Alexander S. Popovic
- Rob Baston
- Michael C. Sheppard
- Stephen A. Huggett
- John Moussouris
- Toby N. Bailey
- P. E. Jones
- Simon Williams
- Michael A. Singer
- Tristan Needham
- Richard S. Ward
- Andrew Hodges
- Asghar Qadir
- Claude LeBrun
- Lane P. Hughston
- Robert J Low
- Richard Jozsa
- Tim Poston
- William Shaw
- notable work
- Andromeda paradox
- Penrose triangle
- The Emperor's New Mind
- Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
- Newman–Penrose formalism
- Shadows of the Mind
- The Road to Reality
- Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
- twistor theory
- Moore–Penrose inverse
- Terrell rotation
- Cycles of Time
- Penrose tiling
- Penrose stairs
- Penrose–Lucas argument
- Penrose process
- Penrose interpretation
- Penrose transform
- Riemannian Penrose inequality
- The Nature of Space and Time
- Penrose diagram
- Diósi–Penrose model