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Roger Penrose

(1931) Mathematician

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Roger Penrose is a mathematician, best known for What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell: and, Mind and matter..

Quick Facts About Roger Penrose

Born
August 8, 1931
Profession
Mathematician
Notable works
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell: and, Mind and matter.

About Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. Penrose's eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged the discovery of quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman.

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