British mathematical physicist (born 1931)
Sir Roger Penrose , OM , FRS , HonFInstP (born 8 August 1931)[ 1] is a British mathematician , mathematical physicist , philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics .[ 2] He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 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 .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
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 ,[ 6] and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ a]
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^ Overbye, Dennis; Taylor, Derrick Bryson (6 October 2020). "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes – The prize was awarded half to Roger Penrose for showing how black holes could form and half to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering a supermassive object at the Milky Way's center" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020 .
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