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Sir Roger Penrose
One of three noted brothers (Sir) Roger, Oliver
and Jonathan, sons of
Lionel Sharples Penrose, nephews of
Sir Roland Algernon Penrose, Grandsons
of James Doyle Penrose and Great Great
Grandsons of Robert Bowles of
Dublin of my Bowles family.
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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born
8 August 1931), is an English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher.
He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University
of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.
Penrose is internationally renowned for his scientific work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general
relativity and cosmology. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared
with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.
He
devised and popularised the Penrose triangle in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form" and exchanged material with the artist M.
C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it. Escher's Waterfall, and Ascending and Descending were in turn inspired by
Penrose.
In 1965, at Cambridge, Penrose proved that singularities (such
as black holes) could be formed from the gravitational collapse
of immense, dying stars. This work was extended by Hawking to
prove the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems.
In 2004 Penrose released The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe,
a 1,099-page book aimed at giving a comprehensive guide to the laws of physics. He has proposed a novel interpretation of quantum
mechanics. In 2010, Penrose reported possible evidence, based on concentric circles found in WMAP data
of the CMB sky, of an earlier universe existing before the Big Bang of our own present universe.
Penrose is the Francis and Helen Pentz Distinguished (visiting) Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Pennsylvania
State University. He is also a member of the Astronomical Review Editorial Board.
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