Roger Penrose Scientist

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931), is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. 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 known for his 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.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)	Penrose Sir Roger
Birth date	August 08, 1931
Birth place	Colchester
Education	University of Cambridge
Known for	Cosmic censorship hypothesis Spacetime Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse Contributors to general relativity Penrose interpretation Penrose tiling Penrose stairs Orchestrated objective reduction Twistor theory Penrose graphical notation Weyl curvature hypothesis Newman–Penrose formalism Schrödinger–Newton equations

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academic advisor	W. V. D. Hodge
awards	Dirac Prize Copley Medal Wolf Prize
doctoral advisor	J. A. Todd
doctoral student	Richard Jozsa Andrew Hodges Tim Poston Richard S. Ward Tristan Needham Lane P. Hughston Asghar Qadir Claude LeBrun Ross Moore Matthew Ginsberg Erlangsen Bergstrom Duncan Stone George Burnett-Stuart George Sparling Adam Helfer K. Paul Tod Peter Law (physicist)
Field of study	Mathematical physics
influenced	Michael Atiyah