Swiss mathematician | University of Zurich | Meierskappel: August 8, 2003 - January 26, 1953 | Maximilian Janisch | Meierskappel: August 8, 2003 - January 26, 1953
Roger Penrose
- Colchester: August 8, 1931 celebration


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Roger Penrose -
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Colchester: August 8, 1931 -
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- mathematics
- physics
- mathematical physics
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- Paul Dirac
- Dennis W. Sciama
- Hermann Bondi
- W. V. D. Hodge
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school Education
- University College School
- University College London
- University of Cambridge
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- Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- Amaldi Medal (2004)
- Adams Prize (1966)
- Royal Medal (1985)
- Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (2006)
- honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw (2005)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1972)
- Forder Lectureship (1993)
- Fonseca Prize (2011)
- Copley Medal (2008)
- Dalton Medal (2005)
- Helmholtz Medal (1998)
- Knight Bachelor (1994)
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2000)
- Eddington Medal (1975)
- Wolf Prize in Physics (1988)
- honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (2005)
- Albert Einstein Medal (1990)
- Marcel Grossmann Award (2000)
- Clarivate Citation Laureates (2008)
- IOP Dirac Medal (1989)
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2000)
- Royal Society Science Books Prize (1990)
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1971)
- Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1991)
- De Morgan Medal (2004)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (2020)
- Pomeranchuk Prize (2019)
- Order of Merit (2000)
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- Penrose triangle
- Penrose stairs
- twistor theory
- Penrose tiling
- Penrose process
- Penrose diagram
- The Emperor's New Mind
- Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
- Shadows of the Mind
- The Road to Reality
- Terrell rotation
- Cycles of Time
- Penrose interpretation
- Penrose transform
- Riemannian Penrose inequality
- The Nature of Space and Time
- Newman–Penrose formalism
- Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
- Moore–Penrose inverse
- Penrose–Lucas argument
- Diósi–Penrose model
- andromeda paradox
- English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher | Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, Amaldi