Roger Penrose
8 August 1931 – present
Roger Penrose is a British mathematician and mathematical physicist whose work spans general relativity, geometry and the foundations of quantum mechanics. He showed that gravitational collapse leads to singularities, devised the aperiodic Penrose tilings, and wrote popular books including The Emperor's New Mind. He shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes.
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Life events
Born into a family of scientists; his father Lionel Penrose was a medical geneticist.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe took a first-class degree in mathematics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis thesis at St John's College was on algebraic geometry and tensor methods.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Penrose triangle and staircase appeared in a paper on impossible objects and influenced the artist M. C. Escher.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe showed that a sufficiently collapsing star must form a spacetime singularity under general relativity.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe held the chair until his retirement, after which he became an emeritus professor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSets of two shapes that tile the plane only aperiodically, later linked to quasicrystals.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe book argued that human consciousness is not reducible to computation and reached a wide readership.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHonoured for showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity.
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