Roger Penrose

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Nobel laureate human mathematical physicist mathematician physicist

Roger Penrose is a British mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his groundbreaking work on general relativity, black hole singularities, and the foundations of cosmology and consciousness.

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Roger Penrose canonical	53
Sir Roger Penrose	5

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instanceOf	Nobel laureate ⓘ human ⓘ mathematical physicist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ physicist ⓘ
authorOf	Cycles of Time ⓘ Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe ⓘ The Emperor's New Mind ⓘ surface form: Shadows of the Mind The Emperor's New Mind ⓘ The Road to Reality ⓘ
awardReceived	Albert Einstein Medal ⓘ Copley Medal ⓘ De Morgan Medal ⓘ Dirac Prize ⓘ surface form: Dirac Medal Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ Royal Medal ⓘ Wolf Prize in Physics ⓘ
childOf	Lionel Penrose ⓘ Margaret Leathes Penrose ⓘ
coauthorOf	Science and the Mind ⓘ The Large, the Small and the Human Mind ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Stephen Hawking ⓘ Stuart Hameroff ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1931-08-08 ⓘ
developedConcept	Penrose graphical notation ⓘ Penrose spin networks ⓘ Penrose stairs ⓘ Penrose tilings ⓘ surface form: Penrose tiling Penrose triangle ⓘ twistor space ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor	John A. Todd ⓘ
educatedAt	University College London ⓘ Cambridge University ⓘ surface form: University of Cambridge
employer	University of Oxford ⓘ
familyName	Penrose ⓘ
fieldOfWork	cosmology ⓘ foundations of quantum mechanics ⓘ general relativity ⓘ mathematical physics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ
fullName	Roger Penrose self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Sir Roger Penrose
givenName	Roger ⓘ
honorificTitle	Sir ⓘ
honour	Knight Bachelor ⓘ
influenced	philosophy of consciousness ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ
knownFor	Orch-OR theory of consciousness ⓘ Penrose–Carter diagrams ⓘ surface form: Penrose diagrams Penrose tilings ⓘ Hawking–Penrose singularity theorems ⓘ surface form: Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems conformal cyclic cosmology ⓘ twistor theory ⓘ work on aperiodic tilings ⓘ work on black hole singularities ⓘ work on the cosmic censorship conjecture ⓘ
memberOf	Royal Society ⓘ
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics ⓘ
NobelPrizeMotivation	discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity ⓘ
NobelPrizeYear	2020 ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Colchester ⓘ surface form: Colchester, Essex, England
positionHeld	Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford ⓘ
sibling	Jonathan Penrose ⓘ Oliver Penrose ⓘ
theoryProposed	conformal cyclic cosmology ⓘ orchestrated objective reduction ⓘ

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Schwarzschild Penrose diagram → introducedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Copley Medal → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Max Planck Medal → hasRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Clare College, Cambridge → hasNotableAlumni → Roger Penrose ⓘ

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Wolf Prize in Physics → hasLaureate → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Albert Einstein Medal → hasRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Dennis Sciama → notableStudent → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Albert Einstein World Science Award → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

De Morgan Medal → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Princeton Science Library → hasNotableAuthor → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Roger Penrose → fullName → Roger Penrose self-linksurface differs ⓘ

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Penrose process for energy extraction → namedAfter → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose process for energy extraction → proposedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose–Carter diagrams → namedAfter → Roger Penrose ⓘ

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Eddington Medal → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Corpus → hasNotableAlumni → Roger Penrose ⓘ

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Harvey Prize → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

American Physical Society Einstein Prize → firstRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Wykeham Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford → hasNotableHolder → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Lorentz Medal → notableRecipient → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose tilings → namedAfter → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose tilings → developedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Ezra Newman → coAuthorWith → Roger Penrose ⓘ

George Ellis → coAuthor → Roger Penrose ⓘ

cosmic censorship conjecture → proposedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy → coversPerson → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Hawking–Penrose singularity theorems → namedAfter → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Hawking–Penrose singularity theorems → developedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

conformal cyclic cosmology → proposedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

conformal cyclic cosmology → hasAuthorOfKeyWork → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Orch-OR theory of consciousness → proposedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Orch-OR theory of consciousness → associatedWithPerson → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford → hasNotableHolder → Roger Penrose ⓘ

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Margaret Leathes Penrose → hasChild → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Margaret Leathes Penrose → motherOf → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Margaret Leathes Penrose → notableRelative → Roger Penrose ⓘ

The Emperor's New Mind → author → Roger Penrose ⓘ

The Road to Reality → author → Roger Penrose ⓘ

The Road to Reality → coverArtist → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Cycles of Time → author → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Cycles of Time → hasAuthor → Roger Penrose ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sir Roger Penrose

Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe → author → Roger Penrose ⓘ

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind → author → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Science and the Mind → author → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Science and the Mind → coauthor → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose triangle → wasPopularizedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose spin networks → inventor → Roger Penrose ⓘ

Penrose graphical notation → inventedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ

twistor space → introducedBy → Roger Penrose ⓘ