Roger Penrose

Professor Sir Roger Penrose in 2012

Sir Roger Penrose Kt OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Wadham College.

Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly, in 2020.^[1] Previously he had won the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems.^[2]

Works

Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity. 1972, ISBN 0-89871-005-7
Spinors and Space-Time, volume 1: Two-spinor calculus and relativistic fields. (with Wolfgang Rindler) 1987. ISBN 0-521-33707-0
Spinors and Space-Time, volume 2: Spinor and twistor methods in space-time geometry. (with Wolfgang Rindler) 1988. ISBN 0-521-34786-6
The Emperor's New Mind: concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics. 1989. ISBN 0-14-014534-6; it received the Rhone-Poulenc science book prize in 1990.
Shadows of the Mind: a search for the missing science of consciousness. 1994. ISBN 0-19-853978-9
The nature of space and time (with Stephen Hawking, 1996, ISBN 0-691-03791-4 hardback ISBN 0-691-05084-8 (paperback)
The large, the small, and the human mind (with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright, and Stephen Hawking) 1997. ISBN 0-521-56330-5 (hardback), ISBN 0-521-65538-2 (paperback), Canto edition: ISBN 0-521-78572-3)
White Mars or, the mind set free with Brian W. Aldiss. 1999. ISBN 978-0-316-85243-2 (hardback)
The Road to Reality: a complete guide to the laws of the Universe. 2004. ISBN 0-224-04447-8 (hardcover), ISBN 0-09-944068-7 (paperback)
Cycles of Time: an extraordinary new view of the Universe. 2010. Bodley Head. ISBN 978-0-224-08036-1

A Penrose tiling (P3) using thick and thin rhombi. Note the aperiodic structure, shared by all Penrose tilings. This particular Penrose tiling exhibits exact five-fold symmetry.
WMAP image of the (extremely tiny) anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation
Professor Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) OM, FRS is an English mathematical physicist renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.
Penrose in the University of Santiago de Compostela to receive the Fonseca Prize
Roger Penrose at a conference

↑ "Roger Penrose | Biography, Books, Awards, & Facts". Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
↑ Siegel, Matthew (8 January 2008). "Wolf Foundation Honors Hawking and Penrose for Work in Relativity". Physics Today. 42 (1): 97–98. doi:10.1063/1.2810893. ISSN 0031-9228. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2020.