Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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gptkbp:instanceOf Mathematician
Physicist
Nobel Laureate
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_London
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkb:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics
gptkbp:birthDate 1931-08-08
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Colchester,_England
gptkbp:children 3
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:Penrose_diagram
gptkb:Penrose_tiling
Black hole singularity theorem
Twistor_theory
Penrose's_theorem_on_the_impossibility_of_a_physical_state_of_a_black_hole
gptkbp:famousFor gptkb:The_Penrose_triangle
Philosophy of science
Mathematical physics
Mathematical cosmology
The Penrose stairs
The_Penrose_conjecture
The_Penrose_diagram_for_black_holes
The_Penrose_interpretation_of_quantum_mechanics
The_Penrose_process_in_black_holes
The_Penrose_tiling_theorem
gptkbp:field Mathematics
Physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Professor Sir Roger Penrose
gptkbp:image https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Roger_Penrose_2010.jpg/800px-Roger_Penrose_2010.jpg
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:David_Hilbert
gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Penrose_process
gptkb:Penrose_tiling
Conformal cyclic cosmology
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Andrew_Strominger
gptkb:Nima_Arkani-Hamed
gptkb:David_Deutsch
gptkbp:occupation Professor Emeritus
gptkbp:researchFocus Cosmology
General relativity
Quantum_mechanics
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Oxford,_England
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Diane_Penrose
gptkbp:website http://www.penrose.com