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Roger Penrose

1931 - Today

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Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. 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. Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Penrose is the 143rd most popular physicist (down from 106th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 279th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Physicist.

Roger Penrose is most famous for his work in mathematics, which includes a collaboration with Stephen Hawking on the Penrose-Hawking Singularity Theorems. He is also famous for his work in physics, such as his work on black holes and the Big Bang theory.

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Among physicists, Roger Penrose ranks 143 out of 851. Before him are Emil Lenz, George Gamow, C. V. Raman, Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. After him are Louis Néel, Rudolf Mössbauer, Kai Siegbahn, Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, and Nicolaas Bloembergen.

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Among people born in 1931, Roger Penrose ranks 18. Before him are Robert Duvall, Irvin D. Yalom, Raymond Kopa, Riccardo Giacconi, Philip Kotler, and Leslie Caron. After him are Anita Ekberg, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Bernhard, Monica Vitti, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, and Martinus J. G. Veltman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Penrose ranks 381 out of 8,785. Before him are Brian Jones (1942), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Alec Guinness (1914), David Lloyd George (1863), Arthur Evans (1851), and Robert Fripp (1946). After him are William Wordsworth (1770), James George Frazer (1854), Saint Walpurga (710), Clement Attlee (1883), Francis Galton (1822), and Frederic Leighton (1830).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Roger Penrose ranks 25. Before him are Paul Dirac (1902), James Chadwick (1891), C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), and Peter Higgs (1929). After him are Henry Moseley (1887), John Kendrew (1917), James Jeans (1877), David Brewster (1781), Andrew Huxley (1917), and John Cockcroft (1897).

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